POLICY EVIDENCE SUMMARY July 2024 - Overcoming the challenges of supplying regional housing

This suggests felt government subsidies that challenges already present in regional housing supply (such as the size of the labour force, the cost of inputs into for new home construction the construction process and the availability of materials) were made worse by the pandemic. [...] In the recent past the township lost population but that trend has been stopped, largely through the ‘B ased on the survey, the efforts of the local government that has become directly challenge of affordable housing involved in new housing supply. [...] housing supply in the regions, Housing is generally affordable in Dubbo with less than and the single greatest gap three per cent of mortgagees paying more than 30 per cent of household income in housing costs, while six per cent in the supply chain, was the of tenants were considered under high housing pressure. [...] The Panel of experts noted that the greatest challenges to housing supply in the regions, and the single greatest gap While Dubbo is not experiencing the same housing in the supply chain, was the shortage of a skilled workforce. [...] In many ways, the most pressing need is for the building of an institutional architecture (including local A clear finding is the need for government action to housing providers, construction-related training providers ‘unfreeze’ local housing markets across rural and and enhanced supply chains) that would support the regional Australia, whereby governments make growth of both market and non-marke.