Residents who were forced to move out of a Cooks Hill boarding house have all been successfully rehomed in new accommodation.
The Herald reported in June that dozens of residents, including recovering drug addicts, elderly citizens, and people with disabilities, faced homelessness after being issued 29-day eviction notices on their Parkway Avenue boarding house.
The owner of the property, Aspen Group, said residents needed to vacate so they could safely undertake major repairs to the building.
One of the residents Rodney Bowen contacted Newcastle MP Tim Crakanthorp about the worrying situation, who organised for housing services and organisations to meet with and assist the tenants.
This proved successful with all residents now in new accommodation throughout different parts of the city.
"We got government agencies and NGOs together to see if we could have a coordinated response," Mr Crakanthorp said.
"Everyone worked together to find places for these people, and also through generous people reading about it and offering accommodation as well.
"I was deeply concerned. A lot of the people were very vulnerable individuals - disabled, elderly and people who had very rough trot through life.
A lot of the people were very vulnerable individuals... So it's been a real win
Tim Crakanthorp
"So it's been a real win."
Mr Bowen said it had been a really weight off his chest to have secured a new place, and meant he could now focus on his studies again.
But he said some of the residents weren't overly happy with where they were and had been forced to pay higher rent than they did at Cooks Hill.
"It's an existence, I wouldn't exactly say we're thriving," he said. "But it's hard for everybody under COVID at the moment.
"Tim was a great help and some of other services were fantastic too."
