Social Housing Initiative to deliver new homes in north Queensland

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

The Minister for Housing, the Hon Tanya Plibersek MP, recently visited the sites of new social housing units in Far North Queensland and the Whitsunday coast, under the Social Housing Initiative of the Nation Building – Economic Stimulus Plan.

Minister Plibersek visited the site of a $6 million Social Housing Initiative project in Edmonton, Cairns that will deliver 20 new one bedroom units, expected to be complete by September 2010.

Across Far North Queensland, more than 200 new social housing dwellings will be constructed in Cairns, Cooktown and Palm Cove, and over 80 in the Tablelands, Innisfail, Tully and Ingham.

Minister Plibersek later toured the site of a $2 million project at Cannonvale on the Whitsunday Coast that will deliver six two-bedroom units by mid 2010.

Along the Whitsunday Coast, approval has been granted for the construction of 80 new homes in Mackay, Bowen, Proserpine and Cannonvale.

The Social Housing Initiative will provide funding of $5.238 billion over three and a half years from 2008-09 to 2011-12 for the construction of new social housing, and a further $400 million over two years for the repairs and maintenance of existing public housing dwellings.

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