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How does your region solve its own housing problem
Most of what drives the housing crisis is decided far above the local level. But some communities aren’t waiting. What can a region actually do about its own housing problem?
- Connect with like-minded people from across Australia who share an interest in driving change on this challenge
- Help identify and nominate regions and case studies already taking real steps on the challenge
- Contribute to what a meaningful local goal for this challenge could look like with the conversation continuing at the Social Impact in the Regions conference in September in Stanthorpe
- Add your name to those making a meaningful contribution to change
Inspiring this Challenge
Housing shortage and affordability affect regional communities differently to cities. Workers can’t arrive because there’s nowhere to live. Young people can’t stay because they can’t afford to. People facing housing insecurity have fewer options and less support. And properties withdrawn into short term rental markets reduce the stock available to residents.
The levers that sit nationally and at state level, interest rates, migration settings, planning frameworks, construction workforce supply, are largely outside local control. But matching available workers to available homes, activating under-used stock, coordinating employers and service providers, and holding the local data that makes the case to government are all things communities can organise. The communities doing this are doing something the rest of Australia can earn from.