Nightingale Housing
Nightingale Housing is a not-for-profit organisation providing homes which are socially, financially and environmentally sustainable. Its aim is to reorient the housing market to focus on delivering quality housing for residents, rather than investors.
Nightingale homes are:
- Sold at cost
- Fossil fuel-free
- Minimum 7.5 NatHERS rated
- Car-free where practical
- Located close to public transport
- Designed to support community
- Only sold to owner-occupiers and community housing providers
- Designed to reduce operating costs
- Sold via a ballot
- 20% priority ballot to key services workers, Indigenous Australians, people with a disability, carers, and single women over 55