Federal funding news In 2022, we secured financing via the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation (NHFIC), allowing us to substantially increase our housing supply to Tasmanians locked out of home ownership and private rental. At our new development site in Shorewell Park, we were joined by NHFIC CEO Nathan Dal Bon, Federal Minister for Housing Julie Collins and key stakeholders for the announcement of $33 million in financing to help us deliver up to 181 new social homes in Tasmania. The loan supported Housing Choices Tasmania’s contribution to the Tasmanian Government’s Community Housing Growth Program – New Social Housing Supply program (CHGP), target to construct 1500 social housing dwellings by the end of 2023.
Under this program, the state government is also making a significant funding contribution to assist in delivering the growth agenda. The tripartite agreement, covering projects worth approximately $60 million, will increase the supply of much needed social housing. NHFIC is providing up to $31 million in loans and $1.92 million in infrastructure grants. Under the National Housing Infrastructure Facility (NHIF) $8 million of the funding will support services infrastructure across eight development sites.
(L to R) Michael Lennon, Federal Minister for Housing, Julie Collins, Housing Choices Tasmania GM, Kim Bomford and NHFIC CEO, Nathan Dal Bon
From launching two new social and a ordable developments across Tasmania with Hobartian and Federal Minister for Housing and Homelessness, the Honorable Julie Collins, to raising awareness around child poverty through community events, it has been another busy year for the Housing Choices Tasmania team. Importantly, Housing Choices Tasmania was one of the key stakeholders in developing a new Tasmanian Housing Strategy via the Tasmanian Minister’s Housing Reference Group. The exposure draft sets the housing agenda for the next 20 years, aiming to develop a housing system across the state that is a ordable, responsive to the needs of the communities and provides safe, secure and a ordable housing for all Tasmanians. Around the country Tasmania
Tasmanian Housing Minister, Guy Barnett with resident Marko
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