Partneringwiththe communityhousingsector.
Our aim is to partner with governments and others, so we can contribute to a real and significant increase in long-term social and a ordable housing supply across Australia. In leading and collaborating with our community housing sector colleagues, we have delivered supply solution presentations in several states. The presentations clearly demonstrated the capacity of the community housing sector to cost-e ectively deliver high-quality housing projects, through unlocking and packaging up innovative and flexible funding opportunities.
The not-for-profit structure of Housing Choices provides us with unique funding, financing and planning advantages. These can, and should, be better exploited by governments and the private sector in order to meet the urgent and future housing needs of vulnerable Australians. We bring with us a collaborative, commercial and compassionate mindset that can make a real di erence. We are heartened by the increasing levels of interest from governments in our proposals.
Leveragingplanningrules to producegoodoutcomes.
Wherever possible, we work proactively with council, planners and developers to leverage planning rules and regulations, and formulate innovative ways to provide housing outcomes which benefit all parties, bringing to the negotiations a combination of unique benefits: tenancy management and property development experience, economies of scale, and our not-for-profit status. Through our experience across diverse types of housing development projects, we have identified a number of opportunities to reach excellent outcomes and we have engaged early with third parties to find workable solutions that mutually benefit developers, councils and us as housing provider. This process has required us to understand and resolve often conflicting objectives and expectations. Our experience is that there is no one single workable solution that will apply across the board.
Housing Choices has embraced inclusionary zoning as a means to increase available a ordable and social housing outcomes. Through our relationships with developers we can leverage both state and local government planning initiatives (including changes to section 173 obligations), and assist with transition and vacancy management initiatives. In reality, there are myriad options available to developers to proactively respond to a particular council’s a ordable and social housing planning objectives, terms and conditions. These include building and selling to a housing association with a proposed total number of dwellings in development (up to 10%); land contributions (gifted or part-cost) to housing associations or council; build, hold and rent via a housing association; and o ering outcomes to councils that are not physically located within the targeted development.
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