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To Read the Five Point Plan FOR SOCIAL AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY WESTERN SYDNEY LEADERSHIP DIALOGUE IN COLLABORATION WITH ITS MANDATORYHOUSING EXCLUSIONARY REFERENCE ZONING: GROUP Mandated inclusionary zoning within a 1km radius of new Metro stations. POINT PLAN - FIVE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. The Western Sydney Leadership Dialogue acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land and pay our respect to Elders past, present and future. First Nation Peoples have experienced exclusion, discrimination and oppression for too long. The Dialogue endorses Traditional Owners having a place at the table when making decisions about their country. WESTERNSYDNEY.ORG.AU 2 ABOUT THE DIALOGUE. The Western Sydney Leadership Dialogue is a not-for-profit, community initiative leading a national conversation about Greater Western Sydney. The Dialogue facilitates interaction between key opinion leaders, across industry, government, academia, and the community, to inform public policy debate and to advance a Western Sydney regional agenda through research, analysis, advocacy & events. WESTERNSYDNEY.ORG.AU 3 SOCIAL AND AFFORDABLE #1 HOUSING MAINTENANCE: Immediate and expansive investment in widespread maintenance and renovation works on existing social and affordable housing assets. GOVERNMENT-COMMUNITY SECTOR ASSET TRANSFER: #2 Stimulate asset renewal and a move to scale for the sector, the NSW Government should accelerate the transfer of its Western Sydney public housing stock to the community sector, in contestable tranches. MANDATORY INCLUSIONARY ZONING AT METRO STATIONS: #3 Transit-oriented developments 1km around new station precincts must strike an appropriate balance between community expectations for the provision of social and affordable housing whilst maintaining a vibrant and profitable development sector. UNLOCK THE POTENTIAL OF LOCAL ABORIGINAL LAND COUNCILS AS #4 KEY AFFORDABLE HOUSING POINT PLAN PROVIDERS: - Increase the utilisation and consideration of Local Aboriginal Land Councils’ assets through planning, partnerships and private investment opportunities with CHPs and developers. BETTER VISIBILITY OF STRATEGIC #5 DEVELOPMENT & PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES: FIVE An open data approach to help promote development and partnership opportunities on underutilised public land. WESTERNSYDNEY.ORG.AU 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. The Housing Reference Secure, Stable and Group Suitable Housing for all In December 2019, the Dialogue Secure, stable and suitable convened the Housing Reference housing for all underpins every Group (HRG), a social and aspect of a community’s affordable housing policy forum viability. Achieving this has made up of Community Housing always been a core policy Providers (CHPs) and financiers, concern in GWS. The region is academia, local councils, one of Australia’s fastest developers, public landholders growing and most culturally and and government agencies. The economically diverse. It is also HRG aims to identify geographically dispersed, shortcomings in existing social spanning Parramatta, and affordable housing policy, Cumberland, Fairfield, propose and refine alternative Canterbury-Bankstown, solutions, and generally Liverpool, Campbelltown, advocate for the sector in Penrith, Blacktown, Camden and GWS. This five-point plan Wollondilly through to the Hills emerges as a distillation of the District, Hawkesbury and the group’s discussions to date. Blue Mountains. Already home to over 2.5 million people and set to expand exponentially in coming decades, fully leveraging the region’s vast potential will demand housing policy that lets no-one slip through the cracks. WESTERNSYDNEY.ORG.AU 5 Current State of Social and Affordable Housing in GWS As things stand, however, the lack of diverse housing stock in GWS is overwhelming. Currently there are only 46,000 social and affordable housing dwellings available to meet a need for 114,000, a shortfall of more than 67,000 homes¹. At just 40.6% of demand, closing this inexcusable gap will require a minimum of almost 6,500 additional dwellings per year, simply to catch up with forecast needs by 2036. The Dialogue recognises that in the short term, the COVID-19 crisis may significantly curtail the immigration growth that has added to such accumulating housing shortfalls. Regardless of population increases going forward, pressure will continue to build on the social and affordable housing sector, not least via likely declining incomes and increasing unemployment, and a subsequent rise in homelessness. With over 14,000 homeless in 2016, GWS rates were already well above state and national norms². The certain compounding devastation of COVID-19 on the region‘s most housing-vulnerable is deeply troubling. *This data was gathered from Western Sydney Community Forum & Wentworth Housing, Home in Western Sydney April 2019. We note Canterbury Bankstown Data was not available. WESTERNSYDNEY.ORG.AU 6 The Dialogue’s East London Tour • Preserve the housing sector’s The Dialogue’s 2019 UK Study Tour to employment and economic role in examine city shaping in East London gave GWS, using stimulus spending to a key leadership cohort from GWS an improve public asset value, revenue insider’s view of the historical context and contemporary workings of one of the streams and the daily lives of tenants; world’s most ambitious urban • Clarify and better match the housing regeneration programs: the remaking of market’s ‘supply and demand’ the industrial relics and socially- parameters, particularly in GWS, disadvantaged communities along the incorporating transparency of demand River Thames east of London’s Tower type, location and associated housing Bridge. An area economically, politically amenity/services, not mere dwelling and historically similar to many defining volume; parts of GWS³, the successful renewal • Hasten the transition towards CHP achieved here (and as observed sector management of social housing, elsewhere in the UK) proved that mixed promote the investment profile of tenure dwelling profiles are essential to social and affordable housing and both new housing projects and the facilitate more innovative delivery of rejuvenation of existing mono-tenure projects and client services; estates. The audacious approach in East London included mandated social and • Make better use of existing public land affordable housing targets within a ‘10- and housing resources, and better minute walk’ of Metro catchments; ‘Third understand and meet community Sector’ leaders working directly with needs, to enhance diversity, government to build corporate capacity; emergency responsiveness, creativity, and the transfer of substantial tranches of cultural appropriateness and resilience public housing stock to community sector in housing options; ownership. Such lateral thinking sees the • Make housing affordability a defining region flourishing today, and GWS must ambition and characteristic of the NSW embrace the same ambitious approach. Housing Strategy; and • Build-in principles of sustainability and NSW Housing Strategy 2020 liveability to the policy framework surrounding housing in NSW. The Dialogue expressed this ambition in our submission to the NSW Housing In collaboration with our HRG, the Strategy 2020 Discussion Paper, with 17 Dialogue now distils these grouped specific policy recommendations grouped recommendations further, into five under six broad Principles of Action, targeted, deliverable elements. designed to: WESTERNSYDNEY.ORG.AU 7 SOCIAL AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING MAINTENANCE: Immediate investment in widespread maintenance and renovation works on existing social and affordable housing assets. Australian and international evidence shows a clear link between poor housing and living conditions, and poor physical and mental health outcomes⁴. It is concerning that one in five public housing tenants live in dwellings that do not meet Australian standards⁵. The efficacy of housing as well as health and welfare policy should not be compromised by the poor maintenance of assets. New stock volumes, types and tenure arrangements are vital, but maintenance is important to guarantee quality of life for tenants and to guarantee best utilisation of the existing asset base. Funding of maintenance rejuvenates housing stock, and increases or unlocks land value, shoring up revenue streams and catering to community needs⁶. It also relieves CHPs of managing homes that are falling behind maintenance schedules, allowing them to invest in preventative maintenance, rather than in rebuilding or repair. There is a constant need for rolling maintenance programs to ensure maximum value for money and optimal asset management⁷, however in the current climate this need is particularly amplified. The Dialogue is urging further contributions to social housing maintenance in the upcoming NSW Budget. Investment in social housing has been a proven stimulus measure, with a benefit-cost ratio of 1.3⁸ in the last major stimulus program during the GFC and provides lasting benefit to some of our most vulnerable community members. #1 Since the GFC, the economic importance of construction jobs and supply chains in Western Sydney has grown tremendously, and as such, a stimulus measure of this kind would also deliver substantial support to our residential construction sector. WESTERNSYDNEY.ORG.AU 8 In GWS, this sector generates the most The Dialogue believes that expanding jobs and produces some of the programs of maintenance and region’s highest value-added economic improving the quality of social
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