IRG Funding: $27m
Total Project Spend: $116m
The Auckland City Mission Home Ground project is an essential service offering community benefit that results directly from the opportunity to build capacity and capability for housing, health and social services not only within the Auckland region but also New Zealand. It will deliver:
- 80 apartments – This facility adopts a New Zealand first model of supportive housing, reflecting international best practice
- A medical detoxification facility
- A social detoxification facility
- The Calder Centre, a dental clinic and pharmacy
- Haeata Community Kitchen offering meals
- Retail and community spaces will be available for therapeutic interventions, including social enterprise initiatives, a conference and event facilities for all Aucklanders
“What this means is that 80 Aucklanders will be housed, and at least 40 of those who have been chronically homeless – on the street for over a year, or 4 episodes of rough sleeping in the last three years. Between medical and social detox there are 25 beds, to support people struggling with addiction. The medical centre on the ground floor, called The Calder Centre, named after our founder Jasper Calder, is a primary health care centre, has enrolled patients of 2000.
A service called Haeata, with a commercial kitchen, a community centre, providing one good meal each day for 200-300 people. Quite simply life changing for thousands of people a year”. Helen Robinson, Manutaki, Auckland City Mission.
