Plan affordable rental housing
Find planning agreements, housing snapshots, and understand how affordable housing levels are maintained in NSW
Role of local government
Local government can play a major role in facilitating and developing affordable housing in NSW. Councils plan to ensure there is an appropriate supply and mix of housing to meet community needs and can encourage the construction of affordable housing by offering incentives to developments which will include it.
A number of councils are already involved in some innovative projects to develop affordable housing, involving private and community partners, for example, Waverley Council, Canada Bay Council, Randwick Council and Clarence Valley Council.
If you are developing a local housing strategy, Housing Snapshots provide sub-regional and regional overviews of housing demand, the housing market, housing supply, gaps in supply, including examining affordable housing. The Local Government Housing Kit has useful information about how to prepare housing strategies and what you will need to include. This Kit also contains a comprehensive database which, along with the Housing Snapshots can help you to understand the housing needs in your area as well as provide a rationale to support your strategy. Most of the data in the Housing Snapshots is from the Kit database.