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Yesterday

Housing Minister Clare O’Neil.

HAFF tender to build just 700 homes this year

The first allocation from the $10b federal government fund for social and affordable housing gave little detail about how many new homes will be created.

  • Michael Bleby and Hannah Wootton

This Month

There’s no shortage of designs for new social and affordable housing. The $10b HAFF offers a new way to get over the funding hurdles.

Social housing offers 8-12pc infrastructure-like returns

As Australia grapples with how to channel institutional money into new housing, the $10b HAFF fund offers a way to invest that Australia hasn’t had before.

  • Michael Bleby

June

The bills proposed by David Pocock and Kylea Tink would make housing a human right in law.

Pocock, Tink push for 10-year housing and homelessness plan in law

Independent ACT senator David Pocock and teal MP for North Sydney Kylea Tink want a 10-year housing and homelessness plan enshrined in legislation to create certainty.

  • Ronald Mizen
Housing Australia CEO Nathan Dal Bon.

HAFF housing fund applications top 50,000 in first round

The government revealed demand for funding under the affordable and social housing program surged.

  • Michael Bleby

May

Import, yes, but also build local skills: Matt Haines on site in Lake Macquarie, NSW.

Imported tradies need to live somewhere too

To fix the housing shortage the government needs to train many more building industry workers at home as well as fast-tracking visas for foreign tradies, builders say.

  • Michael Bleby
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Why did Labor drop a big policy change at 6pm last Friday?

While the media scrambled to get across a housing announcement late Friday, the government quietly dropped long-awaited changes to foreign student numbers.

  • Phillip Coorey
Not clear: a Commonwealth tender requirement for certification excludes smaller and regional builders from work under the $10b HAFF funding program.

Red tape puts Labor’s $10b HAFF housing plan at risk

The federal government, set to fall 300,000 homes short of its 1.2 million target, faces another hurdle over workplace health and safety certification.

  • Michael Bleby
The 37 largest community housing providers bid for funding to develop more than 26,000 social and housing units in developments such as this one in western Sydney’s Penrith.

$10b housing fund should be doubled, community providers say

The massive response to the federal government’s first tender to develop affordable and social rental housing shows more funding is needed, developers say.

  • Michael Bleby

March

More, built faster: Demand has been strong in the federal government’s first social and affordable housing tender.

First tender surge for Housing Future funds

Public housing waiting lists make it crucial to expand funding beyond an initially planned 8000 homes, investors say.

  • Michael Bleby
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been speaking about funding UNRWA.

Albanese pledges $4b for Indigenous housing

Anthony Albanese and Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney will visit the NT on Tuesday to announce a major package for remote homes.

  • Tom McIlroy

February

Youth and Homelessness Minister Rose Jackson says bringing more young voices into policy formation will create better outcomes for housing

NSW to create youth agency as many young have ‘given up’ on a home

The announcement of a “youth voice” to represent Millennials and Gen Z came as a planning expert declared that Sydney no longer works for young people.

  • Samantha Hutchinson

January

Nathan Dal Bon

Government has 12-month window to buy rental homes in a weak market

The federal government is juggling twin needs of delivering affordable and social rental homes quickly as well as boost the overall stock of housing.

  • Michael Bleby
Housing Minister Julie Collins.

Unsold units, office conversions qualify for 40,000-home tender

Funding unlocked for the federal government’s push to boost social and affordable housing stock could be used to repurpose existing structures.

  • Michael Bleby

December 2023

Ryan Stokes, Ross McEwan, Alexis George, Meg O’Neill, Shayne Elliott and Rob Scott.

Top CEOs tell PM to fix housing, improve planning to rescue growth

Australia’s top bosses have called on the prime minister to tackle the housing crisis and cut red tape to lift productivity and keep the economy firing next year.

  • James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald

October 2023

Mixed tenure: Artist’s render of Local’s under-construction 477-unit build-to-rent project at 350 Macaulay Road in inner north-western Melbourne’s Kensington., which will include 22 affordable homes, 11 social homes and eight two-person specialist disability accommodation units.

Local boosts social, affordable housing, backed by Macquarie

While governments are trying to boost the country’s stock of social and affordable homes, some developers are already doing it – and taking a first-mover advantage.

  • Michael Bleby
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Laying the groundwork: Demolition work has already begun at the low-rise South Yarra public housing estate ahead of awarding of the new PPP contract.

Tetris Capital, Icon to take on project for 1400 Victoria homes

The success of the state government’s first so-called ground lease model has prompted it to repeat the process on a larger scale, costing up to $850 million.

  • Michael Bleby

September 2023

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews on the roof of the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne on Tuesday.

‘Derelict’ Melbourne towers to go in 1.2m new homes plan

Two 1960s-era social housing blocks in Carlton will be ripped down and rebuilt in one of the first projects of the Albanese government’s plan to deliver new homes.

  • Patrick Durkin
Labor’s housing plan aims to entice super funds to invest in social and affordable housing.

HAFF opens door to super fund investment in housing

But whether the $3.5 trillion pension industry bankrolls the scheme, which passed parliament on Thursday, will depend on the investment mandate.

  • Hannah Wootton
Financial Review Property Summit - Jennifer Hewett and Housing Minister Julie Collins
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Financial Review Property Summit - Jennifer Hewett and Housing Minister Julie Collins

National Affairs Columnist Jennifer Hewett speaks with Housing Minister Julie Collins about the Housing Accord.

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August 2023

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews on Thursday said he expected his state to pick up a “healthy share” of the $3.5 billion federal housing fund.

‘Get your skates on’ and release land for housing, states told

Economists and property experts warn Australia will struggle to meet Labor’s ambitious target of 1.2 million new homes.

  • Gus McCubbing, Andrew Tillett and Larry Schlesinger

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