The local housing crisis is among the key issues addressed in a Noosa Council report that details its achievements, initiatives and projects from the past 12 months.
Acting CEO Larry Senstock compiled the 28-page Year in Review, which was tabled at last week’s General Committee Meeting. It focused on council’s record $43 million capital works program, new corporate plan and housing strategy.
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A village designed to “provide an immediate contribution to addressing the housing affordability crisis” has received pushback on its application.
The proposed development is intended to deliver accommodation for low-income workers and families, plus vulnerable members of the community and those facing domestic violence situations.
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How do you design a suburb in 2023 to include social housing, affordable housing, be close to public transport, increase density, mesh with the existing community and not send developers broke? Does housing design differ between greenfield locations, where there is no existing layout or infrastructure, and established suburbs where there are already homes, shops, schools, parks – and any problems are entrenched?
Brisbane Times has taken a look at south-east Queensland’s newest suburb, Lilywood, in Caboolture West (now called Waraba), and we have asked industry experts how they would deliver new homes in established suburbs.
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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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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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The Palaszczuk Government has engaged Gold Coast-based builders Volo Modular to rollout factory-built social homes. Eighteen duplexes, including 11 for Gympie and seven for Eidsvold will be delivered before the end of the year. The government is partnering with a number of pre-fabricated builders to rollout more than 100 homes before the end of the year. It’s part of a record $5 billion for social and affordable homes, the largest investment in Queensland’s history, to help deliver 13,500 homes.
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Scammers are taking advantage of the desperate rental situation on the Sunshine Coast, where the vacancy rate has dipped as low as 0.5 per cent in some areas.
Since the start of the year the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has received 32 reports of rental or accommodation scams from Queenslanders, totalling $8,000 in losses.