Video Link: The nation’s leaders have made a deal aimed at creating 1.2 million homes over five years, but ruled out adopting the Greens’ call for rent freezes.
More than 80 unoccupied and underused office buildings in Melbourne’s CBD have been identified as prime candidates for redevelopment into more than 10,000 new homes.
A property audit of the city centre, conducted by the design studio Hassell and planning consultancy Ethos Urban for the Property Council of Australia, listed 86 buildings in Melbourne as “really ripe for adaptive re-use”.
Homelessness Australia said between December and March demand for homelessness services rose 7.5% across Australia amid soaring rents and record low vacancy rates. In total, an extra 6,658 people sought help.
The biggest rise in demand for homelessness services was seen in Queensland (12.9% rise) followed by Western Australia (11.1%) and New South Wales (10.2%), according to the report, which was released on Friday.
The state government has linked with a housing provider and a community centre to bolster social and affordable housing in two Sunshine Coast towns.
Housing Minister Meaghan Scanlon last week visited a property at Yandina, where builders were constructing a complex of 23 one-bedroom and three two-bedroom apartments.
The government contributed $9.78 million and partnered with community housing provider Coast2Bay to build the complex which, once complete in October, will provide homes for Queenslanders on the social housing register.
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Roughly one in three Australians rent their homes. It’s Australia’s fastest-growing tenure, but renting is increasingly unaffordable. From 2020 to 2022, our research found a large increase in the proportion of renters who said their housing was unaffordable.
The crisis has impacts well beyond affordability. The rental sector is where the worst housing accommodates the poorest Australians with the worst health.
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AHURI’s managing director, Dr Michael Fotheringham, discusses how important it will be for governments to work closely with the development industry to solve Australia’s housing crisis—and how industry can be part of the conversation.
It won’t be news to readers that the key issue in housing in Australia at the moment is a profound lack of supply. There’s a lack of affordable supply, there’s a lack of supply in regional markets and there’s also a northward shift of people from NSW and Victoria heading to south-east Queensland, making the Queensland housing crisis perhaps worse than anywhere else.
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Australia is currently experiencing a national housing affordability crisis that continually worsens. One solution to the urgent need for more social and affordable housing lies in the build to rent (BTR) model.
As someone who has long advocated for relying on market forces whenever possible, it pains me to recognise that market failure has been a major feature of the emerging housing crisis.
The failure is apparent in the context of a long-term shift by both state and federal governments away from social housing. The share of public housing in new builds has collapsed – from roughly 10 per cent in the 1970s and ’80s to barely 3 per cent over the past decade. It is now imperative governments re-embrace social housing strategies as probably the most effective way of beginning to make homes more affordable and prevent more people falling into homelessness.
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The number of Sunshine Coast residents waiting for social housing has reportedly grown by 30 per cent. New data showing a spike in Sunshine Coast residents on the social housing waitlist has politicians at loggerheads over the state government’s Housing Investment Fund.
The new breakdown of the social housing waitlist has revealed the number of the region’s residents on the list has grown by 30 per cent since 2017.
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National Cabinet met in Brisbane today to deliver on a range of priorities for Australians, with a focus on more secure and affordable housing.
Delivering more housing supply is a vital part of National Cabinet’s plan to ensure communities thrive as they grow. All governments recognise the best way to ensure more Australians have a safe and affordable place to call home is to boost housing supply.
That’s why National Cabinet has agreed to an ambitious new national target to build 1.2 million new well-located homes over five years, from 1 July 2024. This is an additional 200,000 new homes above the National Housing Accord target agreed by states and territories last year.