The Tablelands Regional Council recently issues a Media Release about their plan for more housing. You can review the full Tablelands Local Housing Action Plan
Focus area 1
Increasing housing supply and diversity.
As evidenced by the past 40 decades of housing production, there is no successful mechanism for substantially increasing housing diversity. This is a failure of a housing action plan if there is no mechanism that can address this aspirational goal.
The primary barrier is that the big four banks need similar housing valuations. This drives the whole housing market to produce the same stock as all the comparisons.
TRC Opportunities
- Provide ongoing monitoring of housing supply, needs and trends.
- Investigate statutory and non-statutory levers and incentives to support the delivery of increased density housing, (e.g. planning scheme and Local Government Infrastructure Plan (LGIP) review).
- Investigate statutory and non-statutory levers and incentives to support the delivery of increased density housing, (e.g. planning scheme and Local Government Infrastructure Plan (LGIP) review).
- Support construction and manufacturing industry development to encourage the affordable and timely delivery of housing (e.g. provide incentives for delivering smaller housing product).
- Investigate approaches to address high construction costs.
- Review housing grant and incentive opportunities and conditions to ensure the delivery of more housing.
- Provide information to the community on housing needs and development opportunities.
Focus area 2
Housing for people in need, Social housing, Affordable housing, First nations housing and Housing to meet ageing population.
TRC Opportunities
- Divest the TRC-owned housing stock and provide to local community housing providers.
- Advocate that the social housing process is reviewed and encourage local people to be housed.
- Support the delivery of affordable housing as a part of large-scale housing developments.
- Strengthen relationships with between housing providers, First Nations housing.
Focus area 3
Building the capacity of the homelessness sector.
(Not sure how this is different from Focus area 2.)
TRC Opportunities
- Increase understanding about the current homelessness service landscape and capacity.
- Develop an appropriate crisis accommodation model for the regional and rural Queensland context.
Focus area 4
Housing for the local workforce
TRC Opportunities
- Undertake research and develop a strategy to manage workforce development growth.
- Workforce accommodation consideration for major projects in the Tablelands region.
- Deliver housing to support (State) government employees as part of associated developments.
- Explore new and emerging models for housing delivery.
While we have every support for this type of discussion and planning of a local housing action plan. It seems that many of these points for action would fall under the category of business as usual. The action item “Provide ongoing monitoring of housing supply, needs and trends.” would appear to be a most obvious statement of this business as usual. Given we are talking about the greatest need for all of this council constituents (cost of living relief, or reduction in housing stress) it would appear that it should be expected that the local governing authority already has a grasp of the housing needs and trends. If you wanted to get an update without the beautiful graphics and micro details included (see below) then the 6’O’Clock news should suffice any night of the week.
Often quoted as the definition of insanity is: –
“Taking the same actions and expecting a different result”
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