Items Tagged With "Social Housing"

Stimulus supporting local jobs

Blog post by Mark Arbib
posted: Sunday Jan 31, 2010, 12:04am

Next time you drive past a primary school you’ll surely see how the Rudd Government’s $42 billion Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan is supporting jobs and small business and is building the long-term infrastructure for the country’s future.

With 70 per cent of the stimulus invested on road, rail, school construction and housing infrastructure, it is supporting up to 210,000 jobs.

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Housing Stimulus to benefit homeless (News)

The Rudd Government has announced that at least 50 per cent of new social housing units delivered under the Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan will be provided to homeless Australians, or those at risk of homelessness.

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The Rudd Government today
announced that at least 50 per cent of new social housing units delivered under
the Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan will be provided to homeless
Australians, or those at risk of homelessness.

The announcement was made
on the first anniversary of the launch of the Australian Government's
Homelessness White Paper.

"Through the White Paper we
have made reducing homelessness a national priority," Minister for Housing Tanya
Plibersek said.

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