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CHL PARTNERS WITH THREAD TOGETHER

Thread Together is an online wardrobe website that diverts brand new clothes from landfill and redistributes them to people in need via a number of registered charity partners and social services. Thanks to Corinne Ward from our Homelessness team in Box Hill this now proudly includes CHL.

Now our homelessness and housing teams across our offices will be able to provide customers with clothing if needed.

For Thread Together, this is all about restoring dignity and hope for people who are going through a difficult time by providing the opportunity to choose a complete wardrobe of new clothes. And we are very proud to be able to work with them to assist our customers.

To find out more about Thread Together, head to: www.threadtogether.org CHL’s newly built Specialist Disability Accommodation in Wooloowin, Queensland.

One of the housing units developed in Adelaide, South Australia.

During this last year, CHL has been able to achieve many outcomes in the housing sector, including:

• In Adelaide, CHL are completing 15 new homes in partnership with the South Australian Government. • In Western Australia, CHL took transfer of 11 properties in Kalbarri for elderly people in need and the lease of 37 homes for low-income workers in Coral Bay. • On the Gold Coast, CHL has signed a lease with the

Queensland Government to manage a youth foyer that will be home to 40 young people as well as a five-unit facility for women escaping domestic violence. We have also secured funding to deliver 47 new homes for the elderly. • In Brisbane, CHL has opened a new Specialist Disability

Accommodation that will be home to six young people with disabilities. You can read more about this project in the Queensland section of this magazine. • In Victoria, CHL has completed construction of 18 homes across Castlemaine, Hepburn, Lynbrook, and Morwell and acquired two five bed group homes for people with disabilities in Moira. We have also opened a new block of 24 apartments in Mernda. Read more about this project in the Victoria section of this magazine. • In the Gippsland area, CHL has announced the delivery of five shared homes and two independent homes in Sale to be completed next year, providing more housing options for vulnerable young people living with a disability or progressive illness in the area. • Internationally, CHL has prepared five housing projects in Chile, Timor-Leste, Peru and India to commence construction that will in time deliver 300 affordable homes. We were also engaged by the Indonesia

Government to provide advice on the development of its community-based housing programs. • Lastly, our very own CHL Managing Director, Steve

Bevington was named as one of the four finalists in the 2021 Victorian Australian of the Year Awards. We are so very proud of Steve for being recognised for his lifelong commitment to end housing poverty for all.

Congratulations Steve!