Twenty-one new homes are going up on Macleay Avenue, Woy Woy: twelve for social housing and nine as affordable rentals. The community housing provider Pacific Link Housing is delivering the project, with Skope Constructions as the builder, and construction has begun with completion scheduled for August 2027.
How it is paid for
The financing is a mix rather than a single grant, and the mix is the story. Pacific Link’s own account of the project itemises two loans from the federal Housing Australia Future Fund, $5.1 million over fifteen years at a low interest rate and a further $2.1 million on concessional terms, alongside a $4.8 million grant from the NSW Government’s Community Housing Innovation Fund, plus ongoing availability payments from the Future Fund across 25 years. The Housing Australia Future Fund is the $10 billion national fund established in 2023 to underwrite new social and affordable housing; Housing Australia reports its first two rounds have backed 2,909 social and 1,941 affordable homes in NSW. The Woy Woy homes are 21 of them.
Who delivers it, who lives in it
The homes are for people in precarious housing and on the social housing waiting list. Housing Australia’s chief executive, Scott Langford, framed the Woy Woy project as a test of joined-up funding: “This project demonstrates the impact that coordinated investment can have in accelerating new supply where it’s needed most.” The NSW Minister for Housing, Rose Jackson, said the homes “will provide safe, modern and secure housing for Central Coast residents”. The site was inspected in late June by the federal Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, with local federal MPs Emma McBride and Gordon Reid and Pacific Link chief executive Ian Lynch.
Where this lands on the Peninsula
New supply on the Peninsula mostly has to come this way, as infill on established streets. Council’s population forecast puts almost all of the Coast’s growth to 2046 in the northern growth corridor and around Gosford, while the built-out Peninsula suburbs barely move; there are no greenfield estates coming to Woy Woy. That makes a 21-home community housing project a significant single addition for the suburb, and it arrives alongside other public spending in the same town: council’s 2026-27 budget carries an $8.65 million intersection upgrade for Woy Woy.