A report from the Queensland Council of Social Services (QCOSS) has predicted 220,000 households will not have affordable housing within 20 years, with 10% of Logan and Beaudesert households already in unaffordable living situations.
The Town of Nowhere campaign report revealed there are around 150,000 households across Queensland with unmet housing needs – a rise of 22% since 2017.
Data showed Queensland groups experiencing particularly rapid growth in homelessness include people aged over 55 (rising 6 per cent over the four years to 2020-21), people impacted by mental ill health (4.1 per cent) and people recently discharged from prison (3.6 per cent).Â
The report makes recommendations to solve Queensland’s housing crisis, including:
- Reforming private landlord tax concessions
- Phasing in broad-based land tax to replace stamp duty
- Re-building housing policymaking capacity within government
- Reforming rent assistance and strengthening rental property regulation
- Expanding social and affordable rental housing
- Further expanding the Queensland Housing Investment Fund (QHIF) and Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF)
- Phasing in meaningful inclusionary zoning
- Mandating inclusion of social and affordable housing for non-estate public land disposal
- Strengthening regulation of short term rental (‘AirBnB’) housing
- Expanding the roles of government, not-for-profits and build-to-rent developers
- Planning reforms to enable more medium density development
- Boosting community housing sector capacity, especially Indigenous Community Housing Organisations; and
- Establishing annual publication of key social and affordable housing statistics.
