True to his organisation’s name, Mark Woolley, who leads community housing provider VisionWest Community Trust, is a visionary about what a good home can do to transform lives. “We put people into a house, but then we ask, ‘How can we see your life grow?’,” says Woolley.
Social workers work with families to set goals, whether it’s study, work or budgeting, or even how to run a house to keep it dry and ventilated. “We’re driven by the needs of the family, but start with rents that are only 25 percent of income. That’s the poverty-cycle breaker,” he says.
Woolley believes that transformation is helped by making a place beautiful; it imbues pride and involves people in making their neighbourhood and community a better place to live. He found kindred spirits in Dave Strachan and Pat de Pont of Strachan Group Architects (SGA). De Pont had connected with Mark and Lisa Woolley – Lisa is CEO of VisionWest, Mark heads housing – some 30 years ago so they were a natural choice when the organisation finally bought a piece of land on Triangle Road in 2012.
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