Bill
National Housing Supply and Affordability Council Bill 2023 [No. 2]
lapsed, as at 2025-03-28. Treasury portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Treasury
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-08-02
- second reading — 2023-08-02
- other — 2025-03-28
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2023-08-02.
This bill is part of a package that would establish the Housing Australia Future Fund to provide a funding source for social and affordable housing and other housing needs, and create an independent advisory body on housing supply and affordability.
The Housing Council Bill would set up the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council as a statutory advisory body to give independent advice to the government on improving housing supply and affordability.
The Housing Council Bill would commence on 1 July 2023, and the package would allocate $10 billion to the fund to deliver 30,000 social and affordable homes and $330 million to acute housing needs over the first five years.
- Establishes the Housing Australia Future Fund as a funding source for social and affordable housing and other acute housing needs.
- Creates the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council as an independent statutory advisory body.
- Provides $10 billion to the fund to deliver 30,000 social and affordable homes and $330 million for acute housing needs over the first five years.
The package would affect people needing social and affordable housing, Indigenous communities, women, children, and veterans, as well as the government and the Future Fund Board.
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