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Lord Mayor Clover Moore officially launches construction of City West Housing’s latest affordable housing development

Announcement posted by Polkadot Communications 07 Dec 2017

Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore will officially launch the start of construction of City West Housing’s latest affordable housing development on Thursday 7th December 2017, with an official sod turning ceremony. This development is part of the Cowper Street Glebe redevelopment precinct.
 
The apartment complex, located on the corner of Wentworth and Bay Street in Glebe, is the latest exciting development in City West Housing’s offering of affordable housing in the Sydney LGA.  
 
The new development will offer 99 affordable housing units in a mix of one, two and three-bedroom configurations, catering for all the primary needs of residents in Sydney. The project is due for completion in mid-2019.
 
The development will feature basement car park facilities and bike storage, ground floor commercial premises and two large communal areas including a lush communal roof terrace. The roof terrace has been designed as an open environment for communal gathering, with the views from the terrace reinforcing the connection to Wentworth Park and the Sydney city skyline.
 
The development would not be possible without the support of the NSW Government who, as part of this collaboration, vested the land to City West Housing. The City of Sydney Council has also demonstrated its commitment to the project through ongoing support of City West Housing’s development activity.  
 
Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore comments: “The cost of housing is at crisis point across metropolitan Sydney and especially in inner Sydney. We are committed to tackling this crisis with every mechanism available to us, particularly in partnership with housing providers like City West Housing as well as state and federal governments”.
 
“This development in the Cowper Street precinct, Glebe, will provide long term affordable rental housing to city workers who would otherwise be unable to live close to their place of work. Identified in our long-term strategy Sustainable Sydney 2030, the Cowper Street development represents a good case study of a cooperative approach between the City, State Government and community housing providers like City West Housing, that will deliver direct social benefits, increase the supply of market housing and provide a diversity of housing options. Together, we need to look at new models of large-scale affordable rental housing that is delivered through partnerships among private developers, institutional investors, the not-for-profit sector and governments”.
“I look forward to unveiling this development in 2019”.

CEO of City West Housing, Leonie King welcomed the commencement of this project, commenting: “The team at City West Housing is extremely pleased to launch construction for our latest affordable housing development within the Sydney LGA”.

“With our latest development, we will be further expanding our affordable housing footprint whilst maintaining our reputation for high quality, low-cost affordable rental housing for city workers on low to moderate incomes”.

Kane Construction is leading the development of the complex, with work beginning after the official sod turning. Cameron Powell, General Manager of Kane comments: “Kane is excited to be involved in another Affordable Housing project that fits seamlessly into the surrounding Glebe community. We fully support City West in their mission to provide quality projects that have excellent amenity for their tenants. This project ticks those boxes”.
 

 
 
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For more information, high res images of the sod turning or to coordinate an interview with Leonie King, CEO of City West Housing, please contact:
Lillian Morrison on Lillian@polkadotcomms.com.au or (02) 9281 4190
 
About City West Housing:
City West Housing is one of Australia’s leading affordable rental housing providers.  The not-for profit organisation is currently celebrating its 23rd year of offering high-quality and affordable rental properties to city infrastructure workers in the Ultimo, Pyrmont, Green Square, Eveleigh and Harold Park areas of Sydney.
 
City West currently owns and operates a portfolio of over 700 properties across the Sydney City local government area, providing stable and quality long-term rental accommodation for over 1,400 people, who are on low to moderate incomes.
 
City West’s key objectives are to ensure the continuous development, building and management of low-cost, quality housing and to be a trusted and reliable provider of affordable properties to rent in Sydney.
 
As a not-for-profit organisation, the organisation acutely understands the importance of stable housing for city workers in Sydney, all who perform an important role in the running of our City and who require housing located near to where they work, in order to be able to fulfil their roles.