600th house completed in Nation Building program
Friday, 25 June 2010
This week Defence Housing Australia (DHA) has delivered the 600th
house funded by the Nation Building-Economic Stimulus Plan. The
house is located in the northern suburbs of Darwin.
With only 229 houses to go, DHA is well ahead of schedule to
deliver all 829 houses in the program.
Houses are complete in most locations with construction still
underway in Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Ipswich, Melbourne and
Sydney.
As part of the Federal Government’s stimulus package, DHA was
allocated $245.58 million to build 802 houses throughout Australia.
However due to program efficiencies an extra 27 houses were added to
the program.
All houses in the program are now expected to be completed by
March 2011.