Six new social housing units slated for the heart of Subiaco may no longer go ahead, with the developers of a planned apartment complex looking to strike them from the build, citing construction costs.
Developer s of a planned Subiaco apartment complex are seeking to strike out six social housing units from the build, citing escalating construction costs.The government development agency has confirmed it will oppose that request, while a local community services provider is calling for a better solution to be found.
Those units would be sold to either the government for social housing or independent social housing providers at 'construction cost'.WeLink is arguing selling the units at construction cost would leave it with a loss of $740,000 and put the financial viability of the whole project in jeopardy. According to their method, the construction cost of each of the six one-bedroom, 50-square-metre apartments is $273,520 — or more than $1.6 million for the six.
"It gives people who are on low income options about where they choose to live, rather than be only in a particular area," she told ABC Radio Perth. "I'd be encouraging to go back to the government to talk about that escalation of cost," she said."I don't think the answer is to scrap a really good policy that ensures that the appropriate diverse housing mix occur in any development going forward.
"DevelopmentWA and other government agencies ... will work together to provide a submission opposing removal of condition 11."Domestic Violence
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