Common Ground

November 29, 2011

On Tuesday 15th November Pru officially opened a new housing facility in Camperdown known as the Common Ground – Camperdown Project.

The building is a $32 million six storey, 104 unit residential development, which aims to reduce the number of people sleeping rough on the streets in Sydney.

The building will supply long-term homes for 62 previously homeless people. It will also provide 42 much-needed affordable housing units for some of the city’s key-workers who cannot afford full Sydney market rents.

The Camperdown Project is unlike the traditional forms homeless accommodation. The model works on the premise that housing someone in crisis accommodation isn’t enough. That’s why the building includes a place for the tenants to learn life skills such as financial management and cooking. The building also has an onsite GP, social workers and even a gym.

The project was jointly funded between NSW and Federal Governments, and was delivered in partnership with Grocon, the Australian Common Ground Alliance and MA Housing.
The Camperdown project is not just a building it will become a home.