More social housing for East Gosford
East Gosford is set to be home to 32 new social and affordable homes thanks to a partnership between the NSW and Federal Governments and Pacific Link Housing. The site…
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Petition calls for real investment in social housing
With more than 3,300 people on the waiting list for social housing on the Central Coast, community housing provider Home in Place is urging people to sign a petition calling…
Funding boost for affordable housing providers on Coast
Community Housing Providers on the Central Coast will receive relief from rent rises in the private market with a $7.5M funding boost from the State government to keep properties available…
Amnesty for social housing tenants
People living in social housing on the Central Coast can contribute to providing a fairer rental system for those in need, with the NSW Government set to run its fourth…
More social housing for Coast
A new affordable housing complex at East Gosford will be one of three Central Coast projects to benefit from a partnership between the NSW government and Pacific Link Housing. Two…
Call for more measures to address homelessness
The not-for-profit organisation Social Futures, which delivers the NDIS and StandBy support programs on the Central Coast, says two new reports highlight an ever-growing housing crisis Australia-wide and has come…
New social housing project for vulnerable women
A new social housing development in Woy Woy will make it easier for older women at risk of homelessness to access secure housing. The social and affordable housing project at…
3,000 wait for social housing but no new funding
The NSW Government has announced an additional $183M to fast track more than 1,400 social housing properties, but The Entrance MP, David Mehan, is disappointed that there seems to be…
Airing clean laundry
Forum – I refer Central Coast Council to recently completed and occupied social housing/boarding house units in Dunleigh St, Toukley. In very clear view of the street, there are clotheslines…
Social housing properties refurbished
A social housing property at Long Jetty is one of 73 properties managed by Pacific Link Housing to benefit from a grant of more than $1.2M from the NSW Government….
Council has neither the expertise nor the resources to solve housing problems
Forum – According to the Community Housing Industry Association, Central Coast has a backlog of 3,000 affordable housing units (“3,000 households on the Coast waiting for social housing”, Chronicle p15…
Minister marks topping out of Beane St social housing development
A 41-unit social housing development in Beane St, Gosford, will be ready to accept its first tenants next year. Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch, and Minister for…
3,000 households on the Coast waiting for social housing
There are 3,004 households across the Central Coast on the waiting list for social housing, a situation exacerbated by a 77 percent drop in private rental vacancies. An analysis of…
Central Coast receives little joy from NSW Budget
Highlights of the NSW 2021-22 Budget are $4M for the Wyong Town Centre Pacific Highway upgrade, $17.8M for extra commuter car parking at Tuggerah Station and $8.1M for social housing…
Scholarships awarded to 67 students in social housing, out-of-home care
Sixty seven young people across the Central Coast will receive cash payments of $1,000 from the NSW Government to help achieve their academic aspirations. Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast…
Governments characteristically deal with social housing stock very badly
Forum – Federal Member for Dobell, Emma McBride, is correct that the Government’s approach to housing supply, both in the current budget and long-term, is pathetically inadequate (“Budget failed to…
Budget failed to invest in social housing – McBride
Federal Member for Dobell, Emma McBride, says the Federal Government missed a “massive opportunity” by failing to invest in social housing in its 2021/22 Budget. The Budget was handed down…
Growing social and affordable housing crisis
Shadow Federal Minister for Housing and Homelessness, Jason Clare, was on the Central Coast on March 29 to hear first hand from locals about the growing crisis of housing affordability…
New Coast Shelter CEO pushes for more social housing
Coast Shelter’s new CEO Michael Starr is a man on a mission. Starr took the helm early this year and is determined to agitate for more social and transitional housing…
Labor MPs add to calls for more social housing
Labor MPs on the Central Coast have thrown their support behind a call from the St Vincent de Paul Society for a commitment from the State Government to provide more…