Bill
Housing Legislation Amendment (Fair Share for Regional Housing) Bill 2024
lapsed, as at 2025-03-28.
- Sponsor
- Helen Haines
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-11-18
- second reading — 2024-11-18
- 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 2024-11-18.
This bill would redirect housing funding toward regional, rural and remote Australia.
It would require Housing Australia and the Housing Australia Future Fund to support local governments and state-owned utilities for building essential infrastructure like sewers and roads.
The minister would have to ensure that at least 30% of Housing Australia's annual funds go to projects outside major cities, and report on compliance yearly.
- Adds local councils and government-owned utilities as groups that Housing Australia must assist.
- Requires the minister to review how Housing Australia can allocate a minimum 30% of its yearly funding to non-metropolitan projects.
- Demands an annual ministerial report to Parliament explaining whether the 30% target was met, and if not, why not.
- Forces Housing Australia to detail in its annual report how each type of financial help was spread across states, local areas, utilities, and regional zones.
- Adds regional, rural and remote residents as a group whose housing needs the HAFF must address.
- Clarifies the HAFF can fund critical enabling infrastructure for social and affordable housing, including affordable rental housing.
Local governments, state-owned utility providers, and people in regional, rural and remote Australia would be affected.
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