Wollongong’s mixed-tenure development is a success. Why isn’t it more common?
Wollongong’s sold-out Northsea development has been heralded as a game-changer for housing in NSW, bringing together private ownership, social housing and affordable rentals together in the one building.
But it is a model that has worked successfully overseas for decades, Michele Adair says – just one that Australia has been slow to embrace despite a housing crisis.
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A solution to the region’s social housing crisis was celebrated today at a topping out ceremony in the heart of Wollongong.
Major milestone for the Wollongong housing development set to offer new beginnings and equal opportunity
A new apartment complex in the heart of Wollongong thought to be the first of its kind in the country marked an important milestone ahead of its opening next year.
The Northsea apartments on Crown Street, a partnership between Traders in Purple, NSW Land and Housing Corporation and the Housing Trust, contain a mix of private ownership and affordable and social housing.
New Wollongong mixed tenure apartment project sells out
A new apartment project in Wollongong that will feature private owners living alongside social and affordable housing tenants has sold out.
Meanwhile, the model has been trumpeted as helping address the state’s wider housing crisis.
