DA logged for innovative social and affordable home project Port POPUP - DAupdate Port Stephens by News Of The Area - Modern Media - September 5, 2024 HUME HOUSING has lodged a development application (DA) to build thirteen homes in Phillip Street, Raymond Terrace through a partnership between Homes NSW. Homes NSW will contribute land where three ageing dwellings currently sit, while Hume Housing will manage the project, transforming the site into six two-bedroom social homes, and seven new affordable townhouses. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981 8882. Email us – media@newsofthearea.com.au If approved, Hume Housing will manage both the affordable and social homes, with the social homes to remain owned by Homes NSW. The Federal Government’s Social and Affordable Accelerator Fund (SHAF) will provide a $1.5 million grant to support the project’s delivery. Hume Housing Chief Executive Officer Brad Braithwaite said, “Although Hume is a non-profit community housing provider, we are investing in this pilot project using our cherished reserves because we see it as a model with great potential for providing more significant and diverse housing solutions at scale for this region in the future. “This is a relatively small pilot project, but we are very hopeful that from little things big things come. “This collaboration demonstrates the impact of councils, state government and community housing providers working together to tackle the housing crisis.” Minister for Housing and Homelessness Rose Jackson said the partnership marks a “significant milestone in addressing housing needs in the Hunter region”. “Through strategic collaborations like this, Homes NSW is proud to facilitate the transformation of underutilised spaces into vibrant communities. “This project alone is growing the supply of homes in Raymond Terrace with the number of households who will benefit with a new place to call home increasing from three to thirteen.” State MP Kate Washington said the project will be the “biggest investment in social housing in Port Stephens for more than a decade”. Hume Housing worked closely with Port Stephens Council on their DA.
