{"id":18856,"date":"2022-10-26T09:12:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T09:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=18856"},"modified":"2022-10-26T09:12:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T09:12:28","slug":"more-quality-housing-for-teacher-in-the-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/10\/26\/more-quality-housing-for-teacher-in-the-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"More quality housing for teacher in the bush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More public school teachers are being encouraged to move to the bush thanks to a significant NSW Government investment to improve the supply and quality of teacher housing.\u00a0
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An additional $23.5 million housing investment has been provided on top of the $174 million key worker housing investment already announced as part of the 2022-23 Budget.\u00a0
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Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional NSW Paul Toole said providing housing is one of the most tangible ways we can attract and retain workers in the regions.\u00a0
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\u201cWe know housing is one of the biggest factors in attracting workers and driving further growth in the regions,\u201d Mr Toole said.\u00a0
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\u201cIt is vital that teachers who work in the regions, especially in our more remote and rural schools, have access to comfortable, modern housing close to their workplace.\u201d\u00a0
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Minister for Education and Early Learning Sarah Mitchell said $8.4 million of the additional investment will be spent on new housing in towns including Bellata, Broken Hill, Coolah, Gilgandra and Ivanhoe.\u00a0
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\u201cWhile we have generous financial incentives for teachers to go to a country school, many teachers considering a regional move have told us that housing is just as important a factor in their decision-making, if not more so,\u201d Ms Mitchell said.\u00a0
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\u201cEnsuring teachers have quality housing options available to them will attract and retain quality teachers to some of our more remote schools.\u201d\u00a0
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Construction work onnew housing has already started in the State\u2019s north this term.\u00a0
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Teacher housing improvements will include $12.3 million of funding for renovations to approximately 50 Teachers Housing Authority managed properties in areas including Stuart Town, Mumbil, Ellerston, Girilambone and Adaminaby. \u00a0
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Around 100 teacher houses will have new heating and cooling installed, worth almost $2 million, and $800,000 is being invested in increasing housing supply by taking out head leases, with the properties to be occupied by country teachers.\u00a0
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Investment in teacher housing is part of the Government’s delivery against the recommendations of the 2021\u00a0Regional and Remote Incentives Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More public school teachers are being encouraged to move to the bush thanks to a significant NSW Government investment to improve the supply and quality of teacher housing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0An additional $23.5 million housing investment has been provided on top of the $174 million key worker housing investment already announced as part of the 2022-23 Budget.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Deputy Premier … Continue reading “More quality housing for teacher in the bush”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18857,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18856\/revisions\/18857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}