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housing
Rentals up 13 per cent
From April 2023 to April 2024, the average rent increased by 18 per cent in the Cambooya-Wyreema area, higher than the 10 per cent average increase across Queensland. The latest Suburbtrends "Rental Pain Index" for April 2024 shows that for the Cambooya-Wyreema area, which also includes Hodgson Vale, Mount Rascal, Top Camp, Vale View and Finnie, the vacancy rate is just 1.04 per cent.
Breaking national price rise records
Shaun Hollis. Combined, the Yorke Peninsula, Barossa and Mid North regions have recorded the largest annual home price rise of any regional area in Australia in the past year, new data has revealed ... Housing Industry Association SA regional director Stephen Knight said home affordability and availability are two of the state’s most critical challenges.
Donald 2000 to tackle shortage of housing
Donald 2000 has taken a big step towards reducing the shortage of housing in the town ... Donald Housing Innovations Pty Ltd (DHIP) ... will ask the local community and local employers to invest in housing as a way to overcome a lack of property developers undertaking housing projects in small rural towns.
Bold scheme to reshape aged care in Denmark
Patricia Gill. Business developer and founder of Denmark-based Acare WA Marie Redman has proposed that the Shire of Denmark buildings be vacated to make way for seniors’ accommodation. Her suggestion, which would involve the Shire moving into the site of Supa IGA and a new big supermarket being built elsewhere, was met with applause at last Thursday’s meeting at the Riverside Club.
Mansions for bush communities, courtesy governments?
Over the next 10 years 2700 mansions, at a cost to the taxpayer of $1.5m each, will be spread across Aboriginal communities in the NT outback ... It's simple: $4,000,000,000 divided by 2700 houses equals $1,481,481 per house ... we have asked Mr Albanese and Ms Lawler for a break-up of what the $4 billion will be spent on.
Landmark $4 billion investment for remote housing in the Northern Territory: Lawler, Uibo
The Federal and NT Governments have announced a landmark joint $4 billion dollar investment for housing in remote communities across the NT to help close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians ... The 10-year commitment to improve remote housing will see up to 270 homes built each year ... Labor Government is investing a further $120 million over three years to match the NT Government’s yearly investment ... in addition to the NT Government’s existing $40 million per annum investment in homelands housing and essential infrastructure upgrades.
Government is blind to housing needs
Member for Indi, Helen Haines, said governments need to do better when she addressed an audience of local governments, not- for-profits, peak bodies and housing advocates as a keynote speaker at the National Regional Housing Summit in Canberra last Friday.
Crisis point – the local face of the national housing crisis
The grim reality of the shortage of available housing in Hay hit home to one young family recently. After a career change which saw Mick and Gabby Flattery and six-year-old Connor leave employer-supplied housing, they faced the disheartening search for a rental property in Hay ... “There isn’t even small one-bedroom unit to rent, let alone family houses."
Bank calls for HAFF quarantine
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank is calling on the Federal Government to quarantine regional Australia’s fair share of the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF). We would like to see 40 per cent of the HAFF directed to regional Australia to support population growth, address the regional housing crisis, and unlock the economic potential of Australia’s regional communities.
Regions need specific new build targets; more dedicated funding for critical housing infrastructure: RAI
Regional-specific new build targets; bolstered and quarantined regional housing infrastructure funding; and better planning for growth are among the asks of government from the National Regional Housing Summit ... A Discussion Paper, presenting the latest regional housing stock data and featuring stories of communities who’ve successfully taken action to solve their housing issues, provided context to Summit.
