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NIGHTINGALE

https://nightingalehousing.org/

Nightingale Housing is a not-for-profit organisation that provides apartments
that are socially, financially and environmentally sustainable. We believe that
homes should be built for people, not profit.

Before we started Nightingale Housing, we looked across Melbourne, and we
saw that housing was unaffordable, badly designed, and poorly built. We
knew it could be better and with the help of Small Giants, we embarked on
The Commons, which won the national award for housing and the national
award for sustainability.

And people started writing to us saying, if you’re going to do another building
like The Commons, can you please let us know? Nightingale Housing was born.

“Nightingale won that award because people seemed genuinely happy to be
living there.”

— Jeremy McLeod, Founder

The site across the street from The Commons was to become the first
Nightingale project. We started work on Nightingale 1 in 2014, and we completed
that in 2017. In 2018 Nightingale 1 won the national award for housing and
the national award for sustainability, and was the first residential building to
win the Melbourne Prize. The reason that Nightingale won that award wasn’t
because of the architecture, but because when the jury went through, the
people seemed genuinely happy to be living there.

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