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
“We are very proud to be working with the NSW
Government on an initiative to upgrade and manage
Government and our maintenance partners,
emergency housing in Arncliffe for people on the
SR Constructions and Willowdene Constructions,
public housing priority list.
to upgrade the housing facilities at Arncliffe to provide habitable, quality homes for people on
The project is part of the NSW Government’s $60.5 million
the public housing priority waitlist and ensure they
program to deliver maintenance works and upgrades
can stay safe indoors during the global pandemic,”
on public housing properties, funded out of its
Evolve Housing CEO Lyall Gorman said.
$2.3 billion COVID-19 stimulus package. “The project is also a great way to stimulate the local We will be managing the tenancies of 142 households
economy by employing contractors to perform the
and will help the residents transition into longer-term
maintenance works and injecting money into local
housing after the program ends in two years.
businesses when purchasing supplies.”
Evolve Housing’s maintenance partners, SR Constructions
The Arncliffe social housing estate will eventually
and Willowdene Constructions, undertook the
be redeveloped into a mixed tenure community
temporary renovations of the Arncliffe estate and
that includes social, affordable and private housing
completed the works in just six weeks. This NSW
as part of the NSW Government’s Communities Plus
Government program will deliver public housing
program, however these plans have been paused
infrastructure upgrades and economic benefits while
during the pandemic.
also helping some of NSW’s most vulnerable residents. | 41
