- Crisafulli Government's delivering a place to call home for more Queenslanders by ramping up social and affordable housing construction on the Sunshine Coast.
- Two projects to deliver 52 new social homes for vulnerable Queenslanders.
- Crisafulli Government unlocking potential of community housing providers to help ease Labor's Housing Crisis.
The Crisafulli Government is delivering a place to call home for more Queenslanders with 52 new social and affordable homes being constructed on the Sunshine Coast this year, to help ease Labor's Housing Crisis.
Community housing providers Kabi Kabi Aboriginal Corporation and Coast2Bay Housing Group are working with the Crisafulli Government to deliver these new homes.
Kabi Kabi will deliver 18 social homes at Maroochydore, made up of six one-bedroom units and 12 two-bedroom units.
Six of the homes will be built to Gold standard, meaning they are accessible, particularly for older Queenslanders with features such as step-free entrances, hobless showers and can have grabrails in the bathrooms.
These units will be home to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples on the Coast and are due to be completed later this year.
Coast2Bay has delivered 34 new social homes at Banya, consisting of 20 one-bedroom, 12 two-bedroom, and two three-bedroom units. Tenants finished moving into these new homes in last month.
To continue to help vulnerable Queenslanders, the Crisafulli Government will deliver 53,500 additional social and community homes by 2044.
These Sunshine Coast projects are part of the 280 social and affordable homes currently in construction or under contract to be delivered across the region.
The Crisafulli Government's housing acceleration follows a decade of lacklustre growth under Labor during which the former Government failed to plan for the State's growing population and added just 509 social homes on average per year over the last decade.
Minister for Housing and Public Works Sam O'Connor said, in contrast to Labor, the Crisafulli Government was ramping up Queensland's housing pipeline to deliver 2,000 new social and community homes each year by the end of this term.
"We're proud to be delivering these new homes on the Sunshine Coast alongside Coast2Bay and Kabi Kabi Aboriginal Corporation. Partnerships like these are the key to getting more homes out of the ground in the right locations across our State," Minister O'Connor said.
"With our first Budget's record investment of $5.6 billion to deliver more social and community housing and our new master agreement cutting red tape, the Crisafulli Government is supporting providers like Coast2Bay to help more Queenslanders have a place to call home."
Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships and Member for Maroochydore Fiona Simpson said the Sunshine Coast was not immune to Labor's Housing Crisis.
"It is great to see two outstanding local community housing providers partnering with the Crisafulli Government to deliver the dignity of a roof over people's heads across the Sunshine Coast," Minister Simpson said.
"Part of this development is dedicated to our First Peoples, because we know housing is critical to fostering positive outcomes and Closing the Gap."
