MyHome in Canberra

Our vision

Our vision is to provide a safe, supportive and caring home for people who have enduring mental illnesses which make it difficult for them to live independently, and who as a result are currently homeless, at risk of homelessness or in unsuitable accommodation — for example, those living with very elderly parents.

Where are we up to?

The MyHome proposal has since 2022 been part of a larger proposal by Wesley Mission for a development on the Curtin site which will combine MyHome with two blocks of affordable rental housing and a community hall. Wesley Mission, headquartered in Sydney, is part of the Uniting Church and is both a church with congregations and a provider of community services, of which both housing and mental health services are important components.

We cooperated with Wesley Mission in preparing plans for the combined development, called Wesley Curtin. Early in 2025 Wesley Mission secured enough financial support from the Commonwealth and ACT governments to lodge a development application, which was approved in October 2025.

Subsequent work by the Wesley Curtin team, their architect and their preferred builder led in early 2026 to finding that the expected cost of construction had risen substantially, mainly because of warfare in and near Iran. Since then Wesley Mission has been reviewing both the available financial support and its own capacity to commit finance to the development.

This has meant a pause in other preparatory work which we planned to continue in partnership with Wesley Mission during 2026. We hope to be able to go ahead soon.