Good Shepherd Community House – Wallaroo VIC
A community hub in Victoria where people of all backgrounds can connect, learn new skills, and participate in recreational and educational programs.
Marrickville Village is a bold new housing project by Good Shepherd ANZ – creating safe, sustainable homes for women and communities at risk.
We’re bringing this to life with and through others. To make it happen, we need partners who can fund, build, advise and support.
This is your chance to help shape real, lasting change.
Australia’s housing crisis is growing, and older women are among the most at risk.
In Sydney’s Inner West, over 1,700 households are on the waitlist for social housing. Across NSW, the number exceeds 62,000. Behind these figures are women – many over 55, often from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds -who have worked, cared, contributed and now face housing insecurity alone.
Marrickville Village is being designed as more than housing. It’s a foundation for recovery, connection and stability – built with community, for community.
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This is a call to those who want to be part of lasting change, whether you’re an individual, philanthropist, business, or community leader. Your support – through funding, pro bono expertise, in-kind contributions, or a future bequest – helps ensure women are not left behind.
Its purpose in action. An opportunity to align values with impact. To invest in something practical, delivering measurable outcomes, with meaningful change, and deeply human.
Together, we can build more than homes. We can help rebuild her future
Marrickville Village is a bold, community-first housing project by Good Shepherd ANZ and Housing All Australians (HAA). It will reimagine a disused heritage site into a safe, inclusive, vibrant village – where older women, people with disability, and those facing housing insecurity can live with dignity, safety, and connection.
More than a development – it’s a movement for change – tackling systemic housing inequality, informed by lived experience, cultural connection and care.
52 homes with accessible design, 20% adaptable and 5 SDA units
Heritage buildings restored and repurposed
Shared community spaces
Embedded wraparound support services
Built sustainably using low-impact materials and green principles
When you give a woman a safe home, you give her back her future.
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Women will be supported
Units Built
Units Built
For over 160 years, Good Shepherd has walked alongside women, girls and families experiencing injustice and disadvantage. We bring lived experience, deep community ties, and a bold vision for systems change.
This project reflects our mission in action — building homes, not just housing. Homes that are safe. Sustainable. Community-minded. And future-focused.
households on the NSW social housing waitlist
households on the waitlist in Sydney’s Inner West
average wait time for public housing in Marrickville
families waiting for housing across Australia
Your support helps turn this vision into reality. Whether you’re an investor, philanthropist, policy leader or passionate community member – you can help build Marrickville Village.
This isn’t charity. It’s change — lasting, life-shaping, generational change.
Designing for recovery, connection and long-term impact
Marrickville Village isn’t a standalone development, it’s part of a long-term strategy by Good Shepherd to create place-based, integrated solutions to housing insecurity, especially for women.
We’re not just working in a community- we’re working with it. That means co-designing with lived experience, grounding in local identity, and building homes that connect people to services, safety, and opportunity.
“It’s not just housing — it’s healing, belonging, and community.”
What is Village Building?
Village Building sees housing as just one piece of a larger wellbeing puzzle. Inspired by the Marmot social determinants of health, it embeds recovery, inclusion, and equity into how communities are built.
Artist’s impression. Indicative only and subject to change.
How it comes to life at Marrickville Village:
Principle
In Practice
Recovery-First Housing
Secure, trauma-informed homes for women leaving violence
Health & Equity by Design
Informed by income, education, wellbeing and cultural safety
Wraparound Supports
Co-located services – legal, health, early years, financial help
Local Identity & Safety
Design reflects community character, safety-by-design and green space
Cross-Sector Collaboration
Built with government, philanthropy, corporate and community partners
Still in development, Marrickville Village is a blueprint for housing connected to care — a place for recovery, stability and full participation in community life.
Be part of building something that lasts Marrickville Village is not possible without collaboration.
We’re seeking partners with the skills, capabilities, and values needed to bring this project to life.
This is an invitation to the corporate sector to be part of something meaningful. A project that delivers real social return, aligns with ESG goals, and builds your legacy in community impact.
Whether you’re a major firm, SME or trade-based organisation, your pro bono, in-kind or funded contributions can help build a village, and change lives.
Let’s build this future together.
To partner, invest or learn more, reach out to:
Executive Officer
0448 014 552
Ty.newton@goodshep.org.au
General Manager, Affordable Housing
0400 803 306
andrew.kelly@goodshep.org.au
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A community hub in Victoria where people of all backgrounds can connect, learn new skills, and participate in recreational and educational programs.
A $10 donation might not seem like much. But in the hands of someone struggling to put food on the table or facing an unexpected