Housing 2041 sets a long-term vision for housing in NSW. Our 2021–22 action plan laid the foundation. We are taking a flexible approach so we can update priorities in response to changing circumstances, evidence and community expectation. We identified the following priorities for the first 2 years.
Providing planning, regulation and guidelines
The department continues to:
- develop policies and guidelines for better jobs, housing and planning outcomes
- reform the planning system to make planning assessments faster and more transparent and to reduce rezoning timeframes
- improve housing legislation to increase housing security for tenants and homeowners.
We also support efforts to:
- improve community resilience and responses to environmental and natural hazards
- ensure communities are not at risk
- introduce adaptable housing design that makes the most of technology to meet changing social and environmental needs
- ensure that new housing types meet individual and community needs
- apply universal design across the housing sector.
Maximising the impact of government
The department continues to:
- invest in renewing and growing social housing and enabling the community housing sector
- enable people living in social housing to transition into private rental accommodation or home ownership
- give ongoing housing help for those in crisis
- support better outcomes for Aboriginal people and communities
- partner with industry and community housing providers to test new housing types on government land
- improve residential development processes the government leads to increase the supply of more affordable, diverse and resilient housing
- support the supply of suitable housing for essential workers in locations where it is hard to find housing.
Establishing a research agenda
The department continues to:
- support research into innovative housing solutions
- promote sustainable and energy-efficient homes.
Working with local governments and communities
We continue working with local governments to:
- plan for and deliver housing
- update their housing policies
- share more data from ePlanning and take part in data-sharing exercises.
Promoting the use of data and evidence-based decision-making
The department continues to:
- streamline and coordinate better access to housing data, evidence and information across sectors
- make the most of the data opportunities the ePlanning program presents.
For more information and datasets, visit Housing Evidence Centre.
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