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July 2017
evolving news for evolve residents
Looking to green up your home? Evolve Housing has a partnership with the Royal Botanic Garden community greening program that allows us to help residents set up their very own community garden.
Already we’ve had a number of resident groups take up the challenge of building their own community garden with great results. Why not get a group of your neighbours together and talk about how you can make it work? We’ve got a brand new brochure full
A community garden allows you to develop new skills
of information about how building your community
in gardening, grow your own food and learn about
garden space.
sustainable living. For more visit It’s a great way to engage with nature and improve
evolvehousing.com.au/communitygreening
your own health and wellbeing right in your own
Photos below: Residents in Narraweena building their
backyard.
own community garden.
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Council seeks to aid the battlers Melissa Yeo DESPITE average household income in Cumberland being 20 per cent lower than the Sydney average, residents are still forking out close to the same amount of rent. Over the past 10 years median household income in the area has increased only 11 per cent while median rental costs have increased by 77 per cent, faster than the Sydney average increase. Capitalising on the development in the LGA, the council is seeking to open up the rental market for lower income earners, implementing inclusionary zoning which would see at least five per cent of residential development in the Parramatta Rd corridor allocated for affordable housing.
quires development to incorporate a certain proportion of affordable housing in a development project or make equivalent cash contribution.” Areas of projected growth include such area as Merrylands, Auburn, Lidcombe and Wentworthville, similar to schemes already in place in Ultimo-Pyrmont and Green Square. However, social welfare advocates have questioned whether the proportion goes far enough. In Anglicare’s report on rental affordability they put forward a recommendation to shore up supply for those on low incomes. “That the level of affordable housing in rezoned developments under the Greater Sydney Commission Plan be revised from five to 10 per cent to between 15 and 30 per cent –
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