Faith Housing Alliance

banner
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Mission
    • Board
    • Team
    • Members
  • Affordable Housing
    • About Affordable Housing
    • Industry Links
    • Industry Research & Newsletters
  • Publications
    • Research Papers
    • Newsletters
    • Presentations
    • Annual Reports
  • Membership
  • Contact Us

More than 7,000 social housing dwellings needed annually for next 20 years in Sydney

13/12/2018

To move people in the bottom-income quintile out of housing stress in Sydney, more than 7,000 social housing dwellings need to be built each year for the next two decades.

According to Dr Laurence Troy, ‘Around a third of this is just to maintain the (existing) share, which we are not currently doing.’

Dr Troy, who is Research Fellow/Lecturer, City Futures Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, says ‘the bottom quintile households we identify would (almost) all be eligible for social housing under the current system.

‘If we put this next to current housing targets of 30,000 per year, around 20% of all housing growth would need to be social housing.

Speaking about AHURI’s just-completed report on social housing as infrastructure, Dr Troy’s team have quantified social housing needs across Australia according to ABS’s SA4 (Statistical Area Level).

The figures suggested are based on existing residents, so AHURI’s estimates are not premised on ‘some grand social redistribution across Sydney’, says Dr Troy.

The report costs-out delivery of such a program, based on a not-for-profit model, but with different subsidy arrangements. ‘The cheapest way to fund this, from a government point of view, is to provide capital grant funding,’ Dr Troy says.

For the short version of AHURI’s report, go to:

AHURI Short Report

For the full version, go to:

AHURI Full Report

Filed Under: Latest News, Projects

Membership Apply
Newsletter Subscribe

IMPORTANT MESSAGE IN RESPONSE TO THE NSW FLOODS

Learn More

How Can We Help?

  • People looking for housing
  • Churches
  • Community Housing Providers
  • Government Departments
  • Financiers and Developers

Vertical Villages Final Report March 2022

Churches Housing is now Faith Housing Alliance

The 2022 NSW State Budget offered handouts to many but band-aids for some fundamental social issues The Faith Housing Alliance supports improvements in pre-school and the care of women,but children and families need housing security for NSW to have healthy communities. “This need is much deeper than simply giving out vouchers – something families reduced […]

Members’ Housing Supply

stopwatch
(since 2010)
Completed1914
Under Construction784
Planned733
Refurbished5
Total3436

Facebook News

Address

Faith Housing Alliance.
Suite 405B, Sky building Tower B, 20 Lexington Drive, Bella Vista NSW 2153
612-9633-5999


Facebook page

Facebook

YouTube Channel

Facebook

Copyright © 2022 · Faith Housing Alliance · Log in