- Budget is strengthening the foundations for a fresh start with a record investment in social and community housing, homeless support services and ongoing support for Youth Parliament.
- Delivering the biggest ever investment into building new social and community housing with $5.72 billion, including continuing the record 6,500 homes currently underway.
- More than $1 billion to be invested into specialist homeless services and crisis accommodation in the next four years, with a $450 million boost in this Budget.
The Crisafulli Government is delivering the biggest ever investment in new social and community housing, more specialist homelessness services and encouraging civic participation for young people, in the 2026-27 Budget.
The $6.1 billion Housing and Public Works Budget is strengthening the foundations for a fresh start by building Queensland's future.
The Budget delivers the largest ever investment into building new social and community housing, with $5.72 billion to continue the record 6,500 social and community homes currently underway and help deliver a place to call home for more Queenslanders.
Under Labor's decade of decline Queenslanders were left with 77,000 fewer homes, rents almost 60 per cent higher, housing approvals down 36 per cent and a social housing waiting list that had blown out by 80 per cent while they built just 509 social homes on average per year.
A $450 million boost to specialist homelessness services and crisis support, will ensure more than $1 billion is delivered for homelessness services for the coming four years.
Labor's approach to homelessness relied on temporary fixes and hypothetical homes while homelessness continued to rise. Instead of reforming a broken system and investing in long term housing pathways, they left frontline services stretched and vulnerable Queenslanders without the support they needed.
Treasurer David Janetzki said the 2026-27 Budget was about delivering for Queensland with a better services through a stronger economy.
"We are delivering on our promises, with relief you can rely on through responsible decisions for now and the future, and no new or increased taxes," Treasurer Janetzki said.
"This Budget strengthens the foundations we've laid in making Queensland safer, restoring health services, delivering a place to call home for more Queenslanders, building generational infrastructure, getting the Games back on track, as well as playing our part to ease national cost of living pressures."
Minister for Housing and Public Works and Minister for Youth, Sam O'Connor, said the Crisafulli Government was delivering even more support to help Queenslanders with housing and to make sure the voices of our state's next generation are heard.
"This Budget delivers Queensland's biggest-ever investment into building social and community housing, because every Queenslander deserves a place to call home," Minister O'Connor said.
"Labor's legacy is failed mandates which stopped projects in their tracks, unfunded announcements which gave Queenslanders false hope, and a broken system with homelessness services forced to wait until each Budget was released to know whether their workers would have an ongoing job.
"Compared to Labor's annual average of just 509 social homes added each year, our record investments have grown our construction pipeline to now have work underway on more than 6,500 social and affordable homes across Queensland.
"The Crisafulli Government is providing more support for vulnerable Queenslanders than ever before and investing in practical responses to homelessness.
"We're also backing the Queensland Youth Parliament to keep making sure our next generation have a seat at the table and to help young people build the confidence and skills they need to contribute to our state's future."
