The Committee for Brisbane is a keen supporter of Housing All Australians and is thrilled to see the launch of their first Queensland project in Acacia Ridge. In partnership with Queensland Rail and Churches of Christ, Housing All Australians is transforming an underutilised Queensland Rail property into 14 fully refurbished bedroom studios to support women over the age of 55 experiencing homelessness.
On Monday, 17 March 2025, Minister Brent Mickelberg MP, Minister for Transport and Main Roads, Mike Myers, Queensland State Committee Chair of HAA, Kat Stapleton, CEO of Queensland Rail, and Gus Taddeo, General Manager of Churches of Christ launched this great initiative.
The Acacia Ridge project is the first of many in collaboration with Queensland Rail, with 10 additional locations across Queensland identified as potential sites to repurpose buildings into accommodation for people experiencing homelessness.
Thanks to the generous donations and support from corporate and community partners, Housing All Australians is bringing long-term empty properties back into use to help address Australia’s housing crisis. Many empty buildings, whether Government, community, or private, can be repurposed. These include former health facilities, outdated aged care facilities, or, in this case, former Queensland Rail overnight worker accommodation.
The use of these properties might be temporary—lasting a few years until redevelopment—or long-term. They might serve families in need, homeless people, women escaping violence, or some of the hundreds of thousands of people in need of affordable housing for a time.
None of this would be achievable without the commitment of landowners to the Housing All Australians initiative and the Australian business’s that donate their time, materials, and expertise to ensure a quality and compliant building is handed over to the community housing provider.
These projects are made possible by Housing All Australian’s corporate partners, which for this project, included Everyone’s Home, a division of Metricon, Lead Consultants, Dieke Richards, Urbis, Professional Certification Group, Auscoast Fire Services, and Forward Access.
Housing All Australians is a national, for-purpose organisation creating business-led actions to deliver housing solutions for Australians in need. They harness skills, goods, and services donated from their corporate partners to collaboratively deliver innovative housing options to those in need. They address Australia’s housing crisis through an economic lens, mobilising compassionate capitalists all across Australia, and connecting them to Community Housing Provider projects in need of support.
The housing crisis is a whole-of-community concern, and through business and Government collaboration and partnership, creative solutions like the Acacia Ridge site can provide more housing options to those in greatest need.
For more information on Housing All Australians and ways to get involved, please visit Housing All Australians
