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Housing Taskforce

The Australian housing market is facing a major crisis that has been evolving over the past three decades. This crisis spans local, state and federal tiers of government and has been caused by a multitude of issues including insufficient and inconsistent planning, skyrocketing house and rent prices, growth in the short-term stay market like Airbnb and limited adoption of new financing models. At its heart is a failure of supply to meet demand.


Housing Taskforce Report

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Read our Housing Taskforce Report below, which has 36 policy recommendations to improve housing affordability and supply in Victoria and Australia.

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Top Eight Recommendations
Recommendation 3: Establish a state-wide Victorian Housing Plan that details the design, quantity, location, and type of housing required across Victoria, as well as the investment required, to prevent future housing crises.
Recommendation 7: Establish a central planning agency that is responsible for ensuring fast, consistent approvals to speed up housing approvals and increase transparency and accountability of planning decisions.
Recommendation 15: Establish a permit process assistance service, equipped with advisers to discuss the process, initial feasibility and constraints, and components of successful applications with applicants for housing approvals to speed up approval processes and maximise the success rate of applications lodged.
Recommendation 5: Encompass and enforce stringent timelines for planning approvals within statutory requirements to ensure faster planning processes and increased accountability.
Recommendation 1: Reform Victoria’s planning and environment legislation and framework to make Victoria’s regulatory settings appropriate for modern housing and infrastructure demands.
Recommendation 6: Increase urban density, especially in areas that are well-serviced by transportation infrastructure, to limit urban sprawl. 
Recommendation 28: Incentivise the wide uptake of innovative construction technologies and methods (e.g., prefabs, timber cassettes, 3D printing) by fast tracking the approval of housing builds that use these methods to deliver new housing stock quickly. 
Recommendation 32: Develop a dedicated planning strategy for Regional Victoria, which includes medium-density housing, to ensure housing and supporting infrastructure meet regional population demands. 

To see the full list of recommendations, download our report below.

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