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  • Location of new homeless shelter revealed

    Location of new homeless shelter revealed

    Friday, 07 December 2012

    Revealing the location of the new shelter, Child Protection Minister Robyn McSweeney said Tom Fisher House would provide secure crisis accommodation to people who would otherwise be sleeping on the streets.

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  • Opening doors to affordable inner city housing

    Opening doors to affordable inner city housing

    Friday, 07 December 2012

    The start of construction of a 168-unit development in the heart of Perth highlights how public-private partnerships continue to provide more affordable housing.

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  • Push to provide employees’ housing in Newman

    Push to provide employees’ housing in Newman

    Monday, 26 November 2012

    Regional Development and Lands Minister Brendon Grylls and Housing Minister Terry Redman today announced the opening of a Registration of Interest (ROI) process for service workers’ housing in Newman.

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  • Affordable housing strategy delivers results

    Affordable housing strategy delivers results

    Tuesday, 28 August 2012

    More than 6,000 new affordable housing opportunities have been created under the State Affordable Housing Strategy 2010-2020: Opening Doors to Affordable Housing.

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  • Service workers’ houses arrive in Hedland

    Service workers’ houses arrive in Hedland

    Monday, 20 August 2012

    The first five of 80 new dwellings arrived in South Hedland in early August as part of the State Government’s Royalties for Regions-supported housing package to provide affordable housing solutions for service workers in the town.

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  • Department of Housing and City of Canning sign up to Brownlie development

    Department of Housing and City of Canning sign up to Brownlie development

    Friday, 03 August 2012

    The Department of Housing and City of Canning recently signed an agreement to work together to develop 25 hectares of land around Brownlie Towers.

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  • Service workers village contract awarded

    Service workers village contract awarded

    Wednesday, 18 July 2012

    Housing availability in Hedland is set for a major boost with the construction of the 293-unit Osprey Service Workers’ Village set to start in South Hedland in September.

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  • Initiatives to ease service worker housing shortage in Port Hedland

    Initiatives to ease service worker housing shortage in Port Hedland

    Friday, 22 June 2012

    The State Government is tackling Port Hedland’s housing shortage and high rents through a Royalties for Regions-supported housing package to provide housing for service workers. The package announced today in Port Hedland

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  • Inner-city social housing given a boost

    Inner-city social housing given a boost

    Thursday, 17 May 2012

    Housing Minister Troy Buswell recently opened a new $16.8 million social housing complex in Northbridge. Minister Buswell said that the complex, on Newcastle Street, would provide much-needed social housing.

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  • 1,000 extra affordable rentals for WA

    1,000 extra affordable rentals for WA

    Thursday, 29 March 2012

    West Australians on low to moderate incomes will benefit from an additional 1,000 incentives to be funded under Round 4 of the National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS).

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