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Housing on the agenda for new Queensland Government

Queensland Government media release

The Queensland Ministerial Housing Taskforce has convened its first meeting, after being constituted during Monday’s meeting of Cabinet, less than a week after Minsters were sworn into their portfolios.

The Taskforce will be responsible for bringing together the major housing portfolios of government to streamline and remove the roadblocks for new housing to be delivered.

The major focuses of the Ministerial Housing Taskforce includes:

• Boosting the delivery of new housing supply in Queensland, and ensuring the state is on track to deliver one million homes by 2044.
• Increasing the rate of home ownership in Queensland, lifting the state from the lowest rate in the nation to the highest in the nation, over the coming decade and opening the door to home ownership in Indigenous communities.
• Unleashing the power of the community housing sector to deliver 10,000 additional community housing homes over the next 20 years, including 500 within two years, on church and charity-owned land.
• Delivering new social housing supply with the Housing Investment Fund, with every dollar of the fund to be targeted toward building new homes, rather than purchasing from the existing market.

The Taskforce will be chaired by Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie and attended by the Treasurer and Minister for Home Ownership, David Janetzki, Minister for Local Government, Ann Leahy, and Minister for Housing and Public Works, Sam O’Connor.

Deputy Premier and Minister for State Development Jarrod Bleijie said the Ministerial Housing Taskforce would be instrumental in securing Queensland’s housing foundations.

“Queenslanders voted for a Fresh Start and the Queensland Government is doing just that with our commitment to deliver a place to call home for more Queenslanders,” Mr Bleijie said.

“The Ministerial Housing Taskforce will bring together Ministers with responsibility for housing to ensure we streamline the process and remove any roadblocks to delivering one million homes in the coming two decades.

“After years of Labor’s Housing Crisis, the Queensland Government will secure our housing foundations.

“The Taskforce will be laser-focused on delivering housing supply after the number of new homes plummet under the former Labor Government.

“We will also work closely with the community housing sector and local government to remove the roadblocks that are locking Queenslanders out of homes.

“This work will also help funnel our $2 billion housing infrastructure fund to where it is needed to kick-start new housing developments.”