Toowoomba Regional Council (TRC) will review options to stimulate medium density housing construction and offer available land that could be used by community housing providers in a concerted effort to address the Region's rental housing shortage.
Council's December Ordinary Meeting this week endorsed motions that are designed to offer more stock for the Region's rental housing market.
TRC Planning and Development Committee chair Cr Megan O'Hara Sullivan, who moved the motion, said Council was determined to examine every available measure to relieve pressure on an extremely tight rental market.
"Council appreciates the input of all concerned parties and will continue to work with the development industry and other interested parties to address problems around availability of rental accommodation across the Region's major urban areas," Cr O'Hara Sullivan said.
"Council's planners are examining various options to encourage the development industry to invest in medium density housing forms in the short term. This is a problem that is being experienced across Queensland and Australia.
