{"id":3447,"date":"2023-04-19T10:07:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T00:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2023-05-02T11:38:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T01:38:17","slug":"reiq-commends-council-on-mackay-social-housing-concession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/reiq-commends-council-on-mackay-social-housing-concession\/","title":{"rendered":"REIQ Commends Council On Mackay Social Housing Concession"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ) is applauding the Mackay Regional Council for doubling the region\u2019s concession on infrastructure charges for new social housing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The boost takes the discount from 50 per cent to 100 per cent, up to the existing cap of $500,000, in a bid to bring builders to the region to develop much-needed social housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REIQ CEO Antonia Mercorella welcomed the incentive as an exemplary way Councils could help attract new private investment in the regions and boost targeted housing supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe REIQ commends Mackay Regional Council for making housing diversity a priority for the region,\u201d Ms Mercorella said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe welcomed the opportunity to provide stakeholder feedback during the review of its general development policy \u2013 \u2018Facilitating Development in the Mackay Region Policy\u2019, in consultation with the REIQ\u2019s Zone Chair for Mackay, Allison Cunningham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGiven the need for diverse and quality housing supply, one recommendation we made was for the Council to consider whether the scope of the Policy could be expanded to improve incentivisation for social and affordable housing in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA 100 per cent concession is outstanding news and is an incentive which speaks to the Council\u2019s strong intent to attract investment in alternative housing options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great to see local government playing an active role, rather than relying solely on the initiatives for social and affordable housing available at a State and Federal level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms Mercorella said with an estimated apportionment of renters to owner occupiers in Mackay at around 28.6 per cent or 12,269 persons, and a population that increases on average by 0.6 per cent per year or almost 1,000 persons, it was sensible to lure in supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile it\u2019s certainly not an isolated phenomenon, Mackay has generally faced slightly tighter vacancy rates than surrounding regional markets over the past five years and has not sat within a \u2018healthy\u2019 range of 2.6 \u2013 3.5 per cent since December 2018,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom March 2020, the vacancy rates for the Mackay region have held between 1.3 per cent to as low as 0.5 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRight across Queensland, we need to be minimising the obstacles that can get in the way of new supply coming to market, and even actively incentivising it \u2013 and that\u2019s where local governments can play a critical role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith many regional communities facing rising levels of homelessness, the REIQ hopes that Mackay\u2019s forward-thinking approach will compel other Council\u2019s to follow suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIncentivisation of supply tackles the problem head on, whereas slapping property investors with additional fees (like we\u2019ve seen some other Council\u2019s do amid the rental crisis) entirely misses the point.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article was contirbuted by REIQ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find more information at: http:\/\/reiq.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Original article source: https:\/\/www.reiq.com\/articles\/reiq-commends-council-on-mackay-social-housing-concession\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ) is applauding the Mackay Regional Council for doubling the region\u2019s concession on infrastructure charges for new social housing. The boost takes the discount from 50 per cent to 100 per cent, up to the existing cap of $500,000, in a bid to bring builders to the region to develop much-needed social housing. REIQ CEO Antonia Mercorella welcomed the incentive as an exemplary way Councils could help attract new private investment in the regions and boost targeted housing supply. \u201cThe REIQ commends Mackay Regional Council for making housing diversity a priority for the region,\u201d Ms Mercorella said. \u201cWe welcomedRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1279,"featured_media":3448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mbp_gutenberg_autopost":false},"categories":[7,29,53,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}