The state's first tenants of public modular housing have moved into their new homes marking an important milestone as the Minns Labor Government continues to pull every single lever to deliver more, well located homes sooner.
Over 150 people will have a safe place to call home, as the NSW Government delivers 90 modular homes over the next year. This is part of the Minns Labor Government's record $6.6 billion Building Homes for New South Wales Program.
After the first three modular homes were brought online last month in Wollongong, residents have officially moved in.
Modular housing provides a cost effective and time efficient alternative to traditional building methods, meaning homes can be brought online faster. Modular homes can be delivered approximately 20% faster than traditional methods with time savings expected to increase over time.
Further, this program delivers on the Minns Labor Government's agenda to promote local manufacturing jobs by creating over 4,000 quality jobs in factories and on building sites across Sydney and regional New South Wales.
Shortly after forming government the Minns Labor Government convened the Modular Housing Taskforce, an expert cross industry panel who provided advice to government on barriers to the utilisation of and ways modular housing could be harnessed to deliver more homes, sooner in New South Wales.
This follows twelve years of privatisation, sell offs and neglect under the former Liberal National Government who oversaw a net reduction in our states public housing from 110,805 in 2014 to 95,765 in 2023. Further, between 2017 and 2021 their completion of 2,257 social homes, paled in comparison to the number they sold off or removed - 3,269.
Since being elected the Minns Labor, Government has been working to build a better New South Wales, with more, quality housing, located near the essential infrastructure people rely on.
In the past year the Minns Labor Government has delivered 1,711 new social and affordable homes, the largest increase in government-built public, community homes in over a decade.
A further ten modular social homes are expected to be delivered by the end of this year, with five in Shellharbour and five in Lake Macquarie. Planning for an addition 80 to be delivered by this time next year is well underway.
Chris Minns, Premier of New South Wales said:
"Housing affordability and availability is the single biggest pressure facing the people of New South Wales.
"The fact is we need to increase our supply of public housing stock. Today is an important milestone in our work to do that, sooner through nontraditional methods.
"Modular housing allows us to deliver high quality homes in less time. It allows us to build more homes and create more skilled construction and manufacturing jobs.
Rose Jackson, Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness said:
"We are directly building public housing again and we are doing it fast.
"These 90 modular homes are just the beginning. We are rebuilding the public housing system after a decade of sell-offs and neglect.
"This is about building homes and creating jobs. It means more work for tradies, manufacturers and apprentices right across the state.
