Gold Coast Bulletin Women of Year Entrepreneurs winner dives into social housing
Tamika Smith - the Gold Coast Bulletin Women of the Year by Harvey Norman ‘Entrepreneurs’ 2021 winner - is on the cusp of her next big project. PLUS HOW TO NOMINATE OR APPLY
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GOLD Coast Bulletin Women of the Year ‘Entrepreneurs’ 2021 winner Tamika Smith is on the cusp of her next big project.
The construction industry pioneer who rallied the sector behind a plan to build a home for the children of slain Gold Coast mother-of-three Kelly Wilkinson has created a new social housing initiative My Bella Casa.
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It’s aim is to deliver Australians environmentally conscious, quality but reaonsably priced homes.
“My Bella Casa is just about to launch a $40 million per annum investment into social and affordable housing to address the largest segment on our public housing waitlists: women over 55.”
She calls it “consolidation of my life’s work from development to construction to understanding the complexities in social and affordable housing”.
“I was incredibly determined to solve this problem, and seeing the stories of so many along the way inspired me to deliver real concrete action.
“When you have women phoning you directly asking for help and hearing their stories you begin to realise the path we have set for them was broken.
“I wasn’t raised to wait, wish and hope.
“If anything, I’ve had to unlearn how to be patient in a lifetime that seems so short for all the things I want to get done while I’m here.”
Her ‘Enterpreneurs’ win was “very humbling and I was very grateful for the recognition”.
“To me, it’s a sign I’m on the right path to doing what I believe I am here to do.”
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