Providing safe emergency housing in Arncliffe

The Hon. Dominic Perrottet, Treasurer and The Hon. Melinda Pavey, Minister for Water, Property and Housing with Evolve Housing's CEO Lyall Gorman.

In mid-2020, Evolve Housing partnered with the NSW Government on an initiative to upgrade and manage emergency housing in Arncliffe for people on the public housing priority list.

The project is part of the NSW Government’s $60.5 million program to deliver maintenance works and upgrades on public housing properties, funded out of its $2.3 billion COVID-19 stimulus package.

We will be managing the tenancies of 142 households and will help the residents transition into longer-term housing after the program ends in two years.

Evolve Housing’s maintenance partners, SR Constructions and Willowdene Constructions, undertook the temporary renovations of the Arncliffe estate and completed the works in just six weeks. This NSW Government program will deliver public housing infrastructure upgrades and economic benefits while also helping some of NSW’s most vulnerable residents. “We are very proud to be working with the NSW Government and our maintenance partners, SR Constructions and Willowdene Constructions, to upgrade the housing facilities at Arncliffe to provide habitable, quality homes for people on the public housing priority waitlist and ensure they can stay safe indoors during the global pandemic,” Evolve Housing CEO Lyall Gorman said.

“The project is also a great way to stimulate the local economy by employing contractors to perform the maintenance works and injecting money into local businesses when purchasing supplies.”

The Arncliffe social housing estate will eventually be redeveloped into a mixed tenure community that includes social, affordable and private housing as part of the NSW Government’s Communities Plus program, however these plans have been paused during the pandemic.

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