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| Subject: Nice one: Former OZschwitz Green MP donates $500,000 to the homeless Wed Aug 27, 2014 9:24 pm | |
| Sydney's property boom proved to be an unanticipated river of gold for Sylvia Hale, but for thousands of others, escalating prices have led to financial stress or homelessness.
So when the former Greens MP sold an Erskineville warehouse previously used for her publishing business, she knew exactly what she was going to do with part of the proceeds.
Ms Hale has donated $500,000 to Bridge Housing, a non-profit community housing provider that operates primarily in inner Sydney.
She and her husband acquired the Erskineville property on the cheap when setting up the publishing company, Hale & Iremonger, in the late 1970s, selling it this year.
"In the meantime there have been these huge demographic changes in the inner west, so when it sold, it sold for infinitely more than I had anticipated," she said. |
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