NSW offers funding for Benevolent Society’s project
The New South Wales (NSW) government has announced $5 million for the aged care housing project, Apartments For Life.
ABC Online reported that NSW Minister for Ageing, Peter Primrose, announced the money at a conference on housing for older Australians in Sydney on 25 February.
The Apartments For Life project has been developed by the Benevolent
Society with the aim of keeping older people living in their local communities longer.
Mr Primrose says 40% of the completed apartments have been earmarked as affordable housing.
He says keeping older people in their homes longer is the right thing to do, both morally and economically.
“It’s one of those wonderful areas of public policy where the socially responsible thing to do, the right thing to do is also the economically responsible thing to do,” Mr Primrose said.
“It’s efficient and it leads to the creation of a better, more inclusive community.”
