At Churches Housing, we are often asked what is the current and forecasted need for affordable housing in greater Sydney and the rest of the State.

So, we asked the City Futures research Centre at UNSW to extract these figures from one of their recent reports*.

In Sydney at the moment, we need more than 55,000 dwellings to meet unmet needs and another 24,100 in the rest of the State.

The total needed in 10 years is 91,450.

Affordable housing needs: current and by 2029

Section of Australia	Current unmet need	Projected unmet need by 2029	Total additional need
Greater Sydney	55,300	10,250	65,550 Greater Sydney
Rest of NSW	24,100	01,800	25,900 Rest of NSW
	79,400 TOTAL current	12,050 TOTAL by 2029	91,450 Total NSW

 

Estimating need and costs of social and affordable housing delivery by Dr Laurence Troy, Dr Ryan van den Nouwelant & Prof Bill Randolph, March 2019 CHIA and Homelessness NSW

From table 1: summary of national social and affordable housing need by sub-region (households)