Australia’s Diocese of Wellington produces houses to help meet shortage
[Anglican Taonga] The Diocese of Wellington’s ongoing focus on building homes is paying dividends, when the first two houses from its prefabrication factory were delivered to church land in Whanganui on Oct. 22.
The new two-bedroom homes are sited next to the vicarage at St. Luke’s Castlecliff in Whanganui and are the first two transportable, energy-efficient homes delivered from the new Featherston-based, diocesan prefabrication factory to church land.
The Most Rev. Justin Duckworth, archbishop of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, said he was pleased to see the Anglican Church stepping up to meet an urgent community need. “New Zealand faces a housing crisis. Our diocese is responding by putting new homes on available parish land,” he said earlier this year in a video to Diocesan Synod.
The two new houses follow eight houses already built by the diocese in the Lower Hutt suburb of Taitā that were blessed earlier this year.
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