Deputy Premier Steven Miles says the government is also setting a target for 20 per cent of new builds to be social or affordable housing. He says the government is supporting additional development in West End.
"To give you a sense of what that might mean, a nurse on an average salary of about $90,000, would need to pay less than $520 a week on rent for it to be considered affordable," Mr Miles said."What we can't do is stop people moving here, and we can't stop the trend to smaller households. we can't stop our ageing population, so we need to plan for all of those things," he said.
Mr Miles said some more land would be added to the urban footprint under the proposed plan, but 70 per cent of the additional growth was projected to be infill development, to avoid urban sprawl in a bid to protect the environment and constrain commute times.However, he said not all homes in that affordable band would be locked in at discount prices."But we're saying that we want to see 20 per cent of new products delivered at market prices that are affordable to those key workers.
"We now propose to strengthen the affordability goals within the Kurilpa Temporary Local Planning Instrument to align with the affordability goals that are in the draft regional plan and we predict will be in the final regional plan," he said.
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