Council on Federal Financial Relations Affordable Housing Working Group

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Note: The issues paper was originally published on 2 February 2016

On 7 January 2016, the Australian Government announced the establishment of an Affordable Housing Working Group (the ‘Working Group’) following a request from Treasurers at the Council on Federal Financial Relations (CFFR) meeting in October 2015 for further work on housing affordability.

The Working Group focussed primarily on investigating ways to boost the supply of affordable rental housing through innovative financing models. These models are aimed at the social housing sector and the private rental market for low-income and disadvantaged households.

The Working Group undertook a public consultation process (2 February 2016 – 11 March 2016), which included a call for submissions from interested parties on innovative ways to improve the availability of affordable housing as highlighted by the attached Issues Paper.

The Working Group delivered its report, Innovative Financing Models to Improve the Supply of Affordable Housing, to Heads of Treasuries on 3 November 2016. At the CFFR meeting on 2 December 2016, Treasurers considered the Working Group’s report. Treasurers agreed to the recommendations of the report, in particular the establishment of a bond aggregator taskforce, and agreed to make the report publically available.

In the 2017-18 Budget, the Australian Government announced the establishment of the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation (NHFIC), which will operate an affordable housing bond aggregator.  The Government has released a Consultation Paper on the establishment of the NHFIC.

In March 2017, the Affordable Housing Working Group was reconstituted to progress Recommendations 3 and 4 of its previous report. This report, Supporting the Implementation of an Affordable Housing Bond Aggregator, examined how existing housing policy and regulatory settings could be reformed to assist with achieving the policy outcomes desired through the implementation of a bond aggregator. The report was released on 22 September 2017.

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Submissions

78 submissions were received for this consultation, including 9 confidential submissions.

ACT Government - pdf 428.4 KB
Anglicare Australia - pdf 405.62 KB
Australian Unity - pdf 483.13 KB
BlueCHP Limited - pdf 339.78 KB
Bullock, Ms Emily - pdf 189.86 KB
Cbus - pdf 307.51 KB
Christian Super - pdf 646.37 KB
City of Sydney - pdf 316.86 KB
City of Whittlesea - pdf 934.51 KB
City of Yarra - pdf 419.96 KB
Compass Housing - pdf 288.46 KB
Equity Rights Alliance - pdf 388.96 KB
Future Asset Services - pdf 526.49 KB
Grace Mutual Limited - pdf 1.12 MB
HillPDA Consulting - pdf 348.81 KB
HomeStart Finance - pdf 739.57 KB
Horrocks Consulting - pdf 1.15 MB
Industry Super Australia - pdf 730.42 KB
Launch Housing - pdf 507 KB
Master Builders WA - pdf 97.99 KB
Moreland City Council - pdf 14.42 MB
Muller, Mr Peter - pdf 338.13 KB
National Shelter - pdf 1.46 MB
Nutting, Mr Mark - pdf 1.42 MB
Pillar+Post - pdf 1.75 MB
Porter Davis - pdf 145.36 KB
PowerHousing Australia - pdf 805.69 KB
Senior, Mr Robert - pdf 464.82 KB
Spannenberg, Mr Andrew - pdf 131.35 KB
Summer Foundation - pdf 1.09 MB
Westpac Group - pdf 234.17 KB
WNC Inc - pdf 74 KB