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Bellingen affordable housing project to start taking in vulnerable women within six months

Publisher/s

ABC Coffs Coast

Author/s

Lauren Exton

Abstract

Former aged-care residential units will be transformed into affordable housing for low-income older women in Bellingen on the NSW Mid North Coast.

Key points:

  • Homes for 16 women will be ready within six months, with another 24 homes ready within 18 months
  • There are reports of older women in the area living in cars as rents become unaffordable
  • NSW’s former housing minister is “embarrassed” the deal with the Commonwealth took so long to finalise
  • The Royal Freemasons’ Benevolent Institution (RFBI) sites on Bowra and Watson streets will be rebuilt or refurbished to create 40 apartments for women over 55.
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