The fate of the government's signature housing policy remains in doubt, with the Greens disappointed by renting measures announced by national cabinet yesterday, but the construction industry has welcomed the move to accelerate the building of 1.2 million new homes.
that build more than their share of the 1 million homes, at $15,000 per house.
He said representatives for builders "will support any measure that the government puts forward to increase building activity, because that's a benefit to their members".NSW sets new target of more than 70,000 homes a yearNSW Housing Minister Rose Jackson said her government's aspirations under the previous target of 1 million new homes was 63,000 a year, but it has now lifted that to up to 73,000 new homes a year in the state.
She said if people living in Sydney's North Shore and eastern suburbs did not want high-density social housing developments in their neighbourhoods, "they need to get out of the way". "Supply is only part of the answer. We need the government to step in and do something to make the homes affordable — and the private market is not doing that by itself.
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