YMCA Brisbane wants to build 42 affordable apartments for mature female residents

The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) has filed a development application for a six-storey affordable housing project for women over the age of 55 experiencing significant social or housing disadvantage. It will be integrated with an existing multi-purpose building.

There will be 42 new apartments at the site in Mango Hill, Moreton Bay, 28.4km north of Brisbane’s CBD, with 35 one-bedroom units and 12 two-bedroom units built to cater for residents with varying mobility capabilities and care requirements.

A dedicated five-storey carparking structure—enabling direct access to the units—is also proposed between the existing four-storey multipurpose facility and the new apartment building that will increase the number of parking spaces from 61 to 113.

The YMCA said this proposal was in addition to a mixed-use housing development for women over the age of 55 currently operating.

The development would be owned, managed and maintained by YMCA, which among its other services and programs, is a registered provider of community housing under the National Regulatory Scheme.