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Update April 2008
- The May 2008 Kew News is now available.
- Since October 2002, more than 460 people have moved from Kew Residential Services to their new community homes.
- 73 new community houses, which provide smaller, more homely environments with 24 hour staff support were built across Melbourne and regional Victoria between 2002 and 2006. Around 360 former Kew residents have now moved into these new homes. See a story on the celebration of the opening of the 73rd and final community house: Kew ‘old boys’ finally get a place to call their own.
- Construction of a further 20 community homes for former Kew residents was completed in April 2008, and the last 100 residents have now moved into their new homes. These new homes will be scattered throughout the new suburb that is being developed on the former Kew site. See the latest, and final, edition of Kew News stories of the final celebrations of the closure of Kew Residential Services.
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