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Housing Shortage Prompts Locals to 'Build Their Own'
- By Paul Sharp
- Published 09/12/2008
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The severe shortage of houses in Narembeen, Western Australia has propelled the residents of the locality to build more houses on their own accord, with co-ordination assistance being provided through the Narembeen Housing Group, a non-profit organisation. This, according to the residents in Narembeen, will ease the housing shortage in their area. Moreover, the Narembeen residents feel that more housing facilities could mean attracting more residents to their locality which in intern would make Narembeen a more thriving community.
The residents feel that the houses will fetch up to three hundred thousand US dollars each. The brick houses with four bedrooms and two bathrooms will cost around three hundred and fifty thousand US dollars. This price would enable the local shire to recollect the loan amounts it has funded for the housing project in Narembeen. For this reason, the local shire has come up with the plan to help the residents by loaning out the required amount. Many of the houses are currently available for purchase directly off the plan.
Narembeen Housing Committee’s Ray Parsons has said that most people who work in the town are compelled to commute from other far flung areas on a near daily basis. This has for a long time had a great impact on the area’s economic as well as social development. Workers employed in Narembeen would mostly prefer to settle somewhere close to their workplace to avoid commuting long distances. This would ensure that all the houses built in the area would be lapped up by these workers.
Because of this, Narembeen residents have taken it upon themselves to build houses in a bid to ease the town's acute housing shortage. According to Ray Parsons the entire residential community has bonded together to bring across a good solution.
In fact, the residents of the area have had a few meetings wishing to know more about the possibility of housing schemes. Ray Parsons said that the residents’ ideas served as think tank for the project. He said that the idea to build more houses in Narembeen was unanimous because of the shortage in housing.
Though it prompts locals to build their own houses in Narembeen, it is widely anticipated that more people from the city would prefer this locality for its quiet atmosphere and relatively low cost housing. This acute shortage prompts the locals to build their own houses here so that they can cash in on the housing market boom witnessed by the locality.
By this, it is not only the residents who are at a great advantage because their beloved town is showing signs of development, but people trying to settle in Narembeen who also prefer an area that is quite free from the city buzz. With this housing project at full swing, there is not an iota of doubt that the town would develop in to a good and thriving locality with the infrastructure and resources to support a growing population.
The first housing project has been commenced at Lot 47 Cheetham Way, Narembeen with output running seemingly smooth.
The residents feel that the houses will fetch up to three hundred thousand US dollars each. The brick houses with four bedrooms and two bathrooms will cost around three hundred and fifty thousand US dollars. This price would enable the local shire to recollect the loan amounts it has funded for the housing project in Narembeen. For this reason, the local shire has come up with the plan to help the residents by loaning out the required amount. Many of the houses are currently available for purchase directly off the plan.
Narembeen Housing Committee’s Ray Parsons has said that most people who work in the town are compelled to commute from other far flung areas on a near daily basis. This has for a long time had a great impact on the area’s economic as well as social development. Workers employed in Narembeen would mostly prefer to settle somewhere close to their workplace to avoid commuting long distances. This would ensure that all the houses built in the area would be lapped up by these workers.
Because of this, Narembeen residents have taken it upon themselves to build houses in a bid to ease the town's acute housing shortage. According to Ray Parsons the entire residential community has bonded together to bring across a good solution.
In fact, the residents of the area have had a few meetings wishing to know more about the possibility of housing schemes. Ray Parsons said that the residents’ ideas served as think tank for the project. He said that the idea to build more houses in Narembeen was unanimous because of the shortage in housing.
Though it prompts locals to build their own houses in Narembeen, it is widely anticipated that more people from the city would prefer this locality for its quiet atmosphere and relatively low cost housing. This acute shortage prompts the locals to build their own houses here so that they can cash in on the housing market boom witnessed by the locality.
By this, it is not only the residents who are at a great advantage because their beloved town is showing signs of development, but people trying to settle in Narembeen who also prefer an area that is quite free from the city buzz. With this housing project at full swing, there is not an iota of doubt that the town would develop in to a good and thriving locality with the infrastructure and resources to support a growing population.
The first housing project has been commenced at Lot 47 Cheetham Way, Narembeen with output running seemingly smooth.
