{"id":27455,"date":"2024-06-26T03:05:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T03:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=27455"},"modified":"2024-06-26T03:05:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T03:05:08","slug":"delivering-more-homes-for-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/06\/26\/delivering-more-homes-for-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Delivering more homes for Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Albanese Labor Government\u2019s Homes for Australia<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>plan will deliver significant new funding across the country to build more homes with a new national housing agreement beginning on 1 July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the new 5-year National Agreement on Social Housing and Homelessness which starts on 1 July 2024, states and territories will share in $9.3 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The funding will help to combat homelessness, provide crisis support and build and repair social housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This new agreement includes a doubling of Commonwealth funding for homelessness, which state and territory governments must match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>States and territories will also share in a further $1 billion outside of the agreement directed towards crisis and transitional accommodation for women and children fleeing domestic violence, and youth, through Housing Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Albanese Labor Government will also help nearly 1 million Australian households with the cost of rent by delivering a 10 per cent increase to the maximum rates of Commonwealth Rent Assistance, as part of the first back-to-back increase in more than 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Government\u2019s Budget last month also included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Training more tradies to build the homes Australia needs with 20,000 Fee Free TAFE and pre-apprenticeship places for the construction industry.<\/li><li>Working with the higher education sector on new regulation to require universities to increase student accommodation, taking pressure off the rental market.<\/li><li>Increasing the Government&#8217;s line of credit to Housing Australia by $3 billion, and liability cap by $2.5 billion.<\/li><li>Providing up to $1.9 billion in concessional finance for community housing providers and other charities, to support delivery of 40,000 social and affordable homes under the Housing Australia Future Fund and National Housing Accord.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This significant new investment is part of the $32 billion in new housing initiatives the Albanese Labor Government is delivering through our Homes for Australia plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Albanese Labor Government has already delivered $2 billion to states and territories through the Social Housing Accelerator to deliver around 4,000 new social homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"prime-minister-anthony-albanese\">Prime Minister Anthony Albanese:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I know firsthand the life-changing power that a secure roof over your head provides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why my Government is committed to delivering more homes, more quickly, in more parts of Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis Budget means more tradies, fewer barriers to construction, less talk and more homes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"minister-for-housing-and-homelessness-julie-collins\">Minister for Housing and Homelessness Julie Collins:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis historic new agreement with states and territories will provide much needed funding to support homelessness services across the country and help build more Homes for Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe agreement is another important demonstration of our Government\u2019s collaborative approach to addressing Australia\u2019s housing challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe understand that working together is the best way to ensure more Australians have a safe and affordable place to call home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why collaboration is at the heart of our $32 billion Homes for Australia plan and the ambitious national target to build 1.2 million homes by the end of the decade.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"homes-for-australia-funding-by-state-and-territory\">Homes for Australia funding by State and Territory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>State and territory<\/th><th>$9.3 billion National Agreement on Social Housing and Homelessness<br>(estimated funding 2024-25 to 2028-29)<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>New South Wales<\/td><td>$2.82 billion<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Victoria<\/td><td>$2.36 billion<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Queensland<\/td><td>$1.86 billion<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Western Australia<\/td><td>$993.2 million<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>South Australia<\/td><td>$625.1 million<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Tasmania<\/td><td>$195.3 million<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Northern Territory<\/td><td>$290.2 million<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Australian Capital Territory<\/td><td>$157.4 million<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albanese Labor Government\u2019s Homes for Australia&nbsp;plan will deliver significant new funding across the country to build more homes with a new national housing agreement beginning on 1 July. As part of the new 5-year National Agreement on Social Housing and Homelessness which starts on 1 July 2024, states and territories will share in $9.3 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/06\/26\/delivering-more-homes-for-australia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Delivering more homes for Australia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27456,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27455\/revisions\/27456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}