EBL Newsletter EBL_Newsletter_Spring_2017_DIGITAL

EBL QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER • SPRING EDITION • SEPTEMBER 2017 In this edition Another Housing Win for the EBL Community....................................................................1 A Word from Wendy..............................................2 EBL Carer Advisory Group / Welcoming Milah.................................................................................3 NDIS Readiness/Updates.................................... 4 Plan Management.....................................................5 EOI – Day Options / Melbourne Trip..............6 Wendy into The State Committee (NDS) / Billee the Artist...........................................................7 NDIS Roll out dates..................................................8 Another Housing Win for the EBL Community E BL are excited to announce another housing win! That’s right, another Unity Affordable Housing project is currently under construction in Blair Athol, and is due for completion in September 2017. Delivering on our strategic objective to provide affordable homes in sustainable communities, the project redevelops existing stock, which is no longer appropriate, to the needs of our tenants. The project has involved the sale of four obsolete dwellings and reinvestment on a Renewing Our Streets and Suburbs (ROSAS) site. The work is being delivered by Oryx Property in partnership with Unity, with the project providing eight new housing outcomes. Each of these will be a mix of two social housing properties for people living with a disability, two social housing properties for large families and four general market housing. At the completion of the project, Unity will replace four obsolete social housing outcomes, sold to the private market as affordable housing to first home buyers, with four new social housing outcomes that are more appropriate and fit for purpose for persons living with a disability or are aged, and for large families on low incomes. Unity will also have created four new properties sold into the general market. This is a great win for EBL and we are excited by the opportunity it brings to the EBL community. EBL QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER 1