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A solution for Australia’s housing affordability issue. It’s a relentless job being an essential worker, especially over the last few years with fires, the COVID-19 pandemic and then the recent floods. With no option to work from home, they have…

The co-founder of a new co-investment housing scheme explains why it’s so important to think about the change you want to create. Danielle Kitchen The Centre for Social Impact’s Amplify Online tool is helping essential workers buy homes close to their…

Recent studies have shown it now takes essential workers over 12 years just to save a deposit for an average home in Sydney – and this goes up to a whopping 28.2 years to buy in the inner ring! John…

A new co-investment scheme, backed by family offices and institutional investors, will be made available to first responders and frontline workers,helping them secure a property close to their workplace. Jamie Williamson Launched today, the Home Owners' Partnering Equity (HOPE) initiative…

July 4 2022, an exciting day for HOPE Housing with the Australian Financial Review reporting news of our pilot launch in Sydney. We look forward to working with our partners and investors to scale up HOPE's innovative home ownership solution.…

Tim Buskens, CEO, HOPE Housing HOPE Housing is a not-for-profit fund manager that helps essential workers like nurses, teachers, police, fire fighters, paramedics, cleaners and transport workers own a better home closer to work, by providing shared equity funding towards…

The stories on Channel 10’s show “Ambulance Australia” are an incredible insight into the daily lives of these emergency service heroes. The challenges and dangers they face and overcome leave us in awe, and incredibly grateful!   Here’s 4 things…

Our cities are becoming increasingly unaffordable for key workers. Herbert Smith Freehills have recently calculated that an intensive care nurse would have to pay up to a huge 38% of their annual income, just to afford the loan repayment on…

Despite their importance in our community, essential workers are often earning low to moderate wages. It’s typically taking as long as 12.3 years for a single income essential worker to save the 20% deposit required to purchase a home in…