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ALP’s Commission Flat Building Boom Underway Without Community Consultation

March 10, 2010 Marc Pallisco affordable housing, Coburg, commission flats, development dispute, Geelong, justin madden, Karen Struthers, kevin rudd, public housing, social housing, tanya plibersek

THE Federal Government’s contentious plan to build record amounts of commission flats and social housing around your streets, and without proper community consultation – seems to finally have caught the attention of the wider community.

Despite anger in some States that details about the mass roll-out of commission flats have been deliberately kept from the community – the State ALP governments are pushing ahead with major public housing projects.

State governments need to do so in an attempt to collect part of the massive taxpayer-funded $5.6 billion the Federal ALP government has allocated to the initiative, for projects completed before a 2012 deadline.

Queensland

Government Tells Community to be Tolerant as Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast All to Receive More Social Housing

January 17, 2010 Marc Pallisco affordable housing, Bowen Heads, Brisbane, Chermside, commission flats, Gold Coast, kevin rudd, Mitchelton, Newmarket, NIMBY, public housing, Red Hill, social housing, Sunshine Coast, Wooloongabba

A RECORD number of social housing is being developed in Queensland this year, as part of the Federal Government’s recent stimulus package.

And the ALP State Government has said it won’t let protesters get in the way of construction.

The Courier Mail reports about 3000 units worth $1.1 billion are set to be developed in the State.

National

Public Housing Building Boom Underway in Australia

September 1, 2009 Marc Pallisco commission flats, community housing, government action, housing affordability, public housing, social housing, tanya plibersek

The Federal Government yesterday released this statement, related to the development of more national public and community housing:

The Australian Government today announced that it has approved over $5 billion worth of projects under the Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan Social Housing Initiative.

The $4.546 billion allocated as Stage Two follows $692 million of projects approved under Stage One in April.

These projects are the biggest ever investment in social housing in Australia.

Victoria

One in Seven Dwellings Within City of Yarra Now Public Housing

April 6, 2011 Marc Pallisco affordable housing, Atherton Gardens, commission flats, Department of Human Services, Fitzroy, public housing, richmond, social housing

FOURTEEN per cent, or one in seven dwellings within the City of Yarra council zone is now allocated as public housing.

According to council, there are 5039 public homes out of 35,960 dwellings within the council area – which encapsulates inner-city suburbs of Abbotsford, Carlton North, Collingwood and Clifton Hill.

This compares to mid-2006, when 4923 dwellings (or 13 per cent of homes) were allocated as public housing.

The number of social dwellings is set to surge within the council area – and throughout metropolitan Melbourne and Victoria – according to agents, architects, builders and planners who agree a commission flat building-boom is starting.

Victoria

Australand Consortium to Build Apartment Compound Opposite Melbourne Uni

November 16, 2010 Marc Pallisco Ashwood, australand, carlton, Chadstone, Citta Properties, commission flats, Parkville, public housing, social housing, St Hilliers, Westmeadows

GIVEN the increasing number of apartment dwellers calling Melbourne’s inner north home, a “direct” trip between the Tullamarine and Eastern freeways – via the zoo and cemetery – can now consume motorist’s an hour, or more, largely because of amplified traffic congestion.

But it would appear in government planning meetings, bottlenecks like that around Elliott Avenue, Macarthur Road and the University of Melbourne have received less consideration than other crisis-ridden road systems – like the ones in suburbs between Seaford and Mt Martha where the $759 million (and many say unnecessary) Peninsula Link was recently given the green light.

Instead, the state government has appointed builder Australand to develop a major apartment compound at one of the inner-city’s last remaining vacant development sites, opposite the Melbourne General Cemetery, the University of Melbourne – and the busy roundabout that connects these two sites to Swanston Street.

Victoria

Doncaster Public Housing Block Reaches Full Height

November 5, 2010 Marc Pallisco affordable housing, commission flats, Doncaster, justin madden, Loddon Mallee Housing Services, public housing, Victorian Planning Minister

MELBOURNE’s next public housing tower – a 10-level, 98-unit complex opposite Doncaster Shoppingtown – has reached its full height.

A “topping” ceremony will be held this Thursday to celebrate the suburb’s new landmark – with Minister for Social Housing and Homelessness (and Sport and Indigenous Employment and Economic Development) Mark Arbib likely to attend. State government representatives, and the developer, Bendigo-based not-for-profit group Loddon Mallee Housing Services will also be there.

The 95 – 99 Tram Road affordable housing complex is being funded using money from the Commonwealth Government’s Nation Building Economic Stimulus which aims to deliver 4500 new rental homes for low income earning Victorians.

Victoria

Palms Motel Footscray Sells For $3.2 Million

November 4, 2010 Marc Pallisco affordable housing, commission flats, Department of Human Services, DHS, footscray, Melbourne Motel Sale, public housing, social housing, tourist accommodation

THE Footscray motel which was until recently to have become Melbourne’s next commission flat complex, has sold to an investor for $3.2 million, and is expected to be re-opened as a hospitality business.

On a 2985 square metre block at the corner of Geelong Road and Catherine Street, the former Palms Motel is near Victoria University, central Footscray and the Maribyrnong River.

The Department of Human Services which is increasingly leasing hotel and motel rooms and facilities to satisfy its growing public housing waiting list, had co-ordinated a lease for the Palms Hotel.

Victoria

Madden’s Clayton Development One Step Closer

July 18, 2010 Marc Pallisco affordable housing, Clayton, commission flats, justin madden, Monash, public housing, social housing, VCAT

THE Monash City Council didn’t want it – but Planning Minister Justin Madden did – and now one of the south-eastern suburb’s biggest public-private housing developments is set to start construction soon, in Clayton.

After more than ten years of debate, a $270 million apartment-based complex will replace a low-rise shopping centre at the busy north-east corner of Dandenong and Blackburn roads.

Approximately 400 apartments will be developed as part of The Nova Centre redevelopment – many to accommodate public housing residents, and students. A hotel and shopping centre will also be built on the site.

Victoria

Historic Harold Boot Company Factory, Abbotsford, Demolished For Commission Flats

July 12, 2010 Marc Pallisco Abbotsford, commission flats, Common Equity Housing Limited

YET to be replaced Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation Lindsay Tanner may be moving out the marginal Melbourne electorate

Victoria

Minister approves $140m public housing project

May 16, 2010February 11, 2021 Marc Pallisco affordable housing, Ashwood, Chadstone, commission flats, Holmesglen, Jordanville, justin madden, Port Phillip Housing Association, public housing, social housing, Victorian Planning Minister

VICTORIAN Planning Minister Justin Madden has paved the way for one of the state’s biggest public housing-based estates to be developed in Melbourne’s south-east.

The $140 million Ashwood Chadstone Gateway project affects six major development sites in Ashwood and Chadstone, near the Chadstone Shopping Centre.

With ministerial approval given on Thursday, the public housing project is expected to start construction in July.

Commission flat towers will rise between four and seven levels at sites around Warrigal Road, the Holmesglen and Jordanville train stations, and around the Ashwood Reserve and Harlequin Rugby Club.

Victoria

Victorian Government to Hand Over One of Melbourne’s Largest Undeveloped Central Sites

March 21, 2010 Marc Pallisco commission flats, Docklands, Mixed Use Village, New Melbourne Apartment Building, New Melbourne Office Building, New Melbourne Shopping Centre, public housing, social housing, South Wharf, Southbank

THE State Government of Victoria is formalising a plan to redevelop one of central Melbourne’s largest undeveloped sites, at the riverfront junction the CBD merges with Southbank and Docklands.

Between the Mission to Seafarers building at the corner of Wurundjeri Way and Siddeley Street, and stretching almost the length to the Charles Grimes Bridge, the massive 1.24 hectare site, accommodating old industrial sheds in a precinct called Flinders Wharf, has a 230 metre frontage to the Yarra River.

A Registration of Interest campaign was quietly launched by the government this week, seeking advice from consultants and developers to propose a new future for the site, likely to incorporate offices, shops and apartment towers, possibly with a component of affordable and social housing.

Victoria

Geelong Commission Flat Site Listed For Private Sale

March 15, 2010 Marc Pallisco affordable housing, Brumby Government, commission flats, Geelong, justin madden, Labor Party, public housing, Rudd Government, social housing

WHILE attention in Geelong’s this week has circled the ‘approved-by-stealth’ public-private housing redevelopment of the city’s former TAFE site, another high profile property – given the green light last year to become one of the federal government’s 80,000 social and affordable new dwellings – failed to sell at auction.

Grey concrete silos at 46 – 48 Mercer Street, at the corner of Roy Street, and near the town centre – has now been listed for private sale through Colliers International at $1.95 million.

A 40-unit affordable housing development has been approved to be developed within the walls of the high-rise silos, prominent on the drive in to Geelong.

The Rudd government aims to substantially boost the number of social and affordable houses nationally by 2012.

Victoria

Public Housing Residents Want Air Conditioning

February 23, 2010 Marc Pallisco Channel Estate, commission flats, Community Housing Limited, Dennis Family Corporation, public housing, Shepparton, social housing, Urban Development Institute of Australia

PUBLIC housing residents in an award-winning estate, in Shepparton, are resorting to sleeping outside, because their homes are too hot.

One resident of the Channel Estate in West Shepparton described the temperature of their homes as being “like a microwave” – often 10C to 15C hotter than outside.

The Dennis Family Corporation development won an award for excellence in the Urban Development Institute of Australia in the best affordable development category, the Herald Sun reports.