The Queensland government is not trying to predict increased demand for social housing as a result of cost-of-living pressures and won’t be able to accommodate everyone, a scathing report has found.
Queensland’s social housing wait list is poorly managed and current state government plans to build more dwellings will fail to meet the increase in demand as a result of cost-of-living pressures.
“While the style and location of new builds align with current social housing demand, these dwellings alone will not be sufficient as growth of the register is likely to accelerate with rising interest rates and a tightening rental market.” About 61 per cent of households on the register are classified as having very high need, can be contacted by the department, and are “likely to be allocated housing”. The rest are not contactable and have inactive applications that should be reviewed and removed if no longer eligible.About 15 per cent of the government-managed social housing was also found to be under-occupied, with two or more spare bedrooms in almost 8400 social housing dwellings.
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