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Published on: 11/27/2006
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Project Officer, Trish Evans, urges all Councils and interested business and community agencies to consider how this regional response could be strengthened through collective effort."What is required is an affordable housing development industry" explains Ms Evans "and the Commonwealth's new National Rental Affordability Scheme is designed to attract investment into affordable development and create this industry".This scheme provides an annual tax incentive of $6,000 per year per dwelling for ten years to institutional investors in affordable housing and includes a contribution to the value of $2,000 per year from State governments for the same period."What we must do is attract that investment into our region" Ms Evans adds.
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Trish Evans (NRSDC Affordable Housing Project Officer) 0447 212 245