As early voting opens across Queensland, the state’s leading housing and homelessness peak body has revealed the proactive and preventive approaches that local governments can adopt to help remedy Cairns’ unmet housing need and homelessness.
In letters addressed to mayoral and councillor candidates across all 77 of Queensland’s local government areas, Q Shelter outlined the key role the Council can play in solutions to homelessness, planning levers for strategic housing supply, and partnerships with community housing providers.
Q Shelter’s Executive Director, Fiona Caniglia, says Queensland’s housing challenges are well-documented and each tier of government plays a vital and interconnected role in the facilitation of housing supply, diversity, affordability, and future planning.
“Local governments are engaged with people at all points of the housing crisis, from planning processes and supply, local regulations on short-term rentals, or front-line contact with people experiencing homelessness through the management of public spaces and council facilities,” says Ms Caniglia.
“In terms of public attitudes and response to homelessness, they are also key to engagement with the broader community. They often field local concerns about visible homelessness, the welfare of those experiencing homelessness and the community concerns about housing diversity and density.
“In playing such a vital role, we have proposed the consolidation and expansion of Public Space Liaison Officer (PSLO) roles across the local government sector connected to housing, homelessness, health, and other human services.
“We would also like to see the development of an integrated ‘Housing and Homelessness’ strategy to align the work across local government and industry in a place-based framework.”
Data from the Queensland Government statistician’s office gives the following insights for Cairns:
Annual growth rate of 1.1% for 10 years, which is lower than the State average of 1.5%.
26.4% of people in the most disadvantaged sector.
63.3% of social housing applicants were assessed as being in very high need, compared to 56.9% of all state applicants.
Much higher number of people accessing specialist homelessness services on a typical night (17.4 clients per 10,000 people in Cairns, compared to 7.2 per 10,000 across Queensland).
Median rent for a 2-bedroom unit was lower than the State median ($430 compared to $525), but median rent for 3-bedroom house was higher ($533 compared to $520 per week).
Half of low-income households (50%) are experiencing mortgage stress.
Ms Caniglia says local government planning schemes and measures are crucial for successfully implementing housing supply strategies, particularly in interpreting population targets into land supply and planning schemes for Queensland.
“Some Councils have adopted progressive planning system reforms, however there are additional levers that will help achieve supply where it is needed and as quickly as possible,” says Ms Caniglia.
“These include fast-tracked approval processes for social and affordable housing projects and ensuring land supply and housing targets are aligned with population projections for the region.
“Councils could also consider further regulating short-term rental accommodation to incentivise the retention of housing in the private rental market.”
Ms Caniglia says in Queensland, local governments display leadership, innovation, and partnerships, particularly with community housing providers, whose expanding role is due to increased funding opportunities from both state and federal governments.
“Local governments could consider discounts on development application fees, infrastructure charges and rates for social and affordable housing projects.
“To effectively address both current and future housing needs, it’s crucial to identify suitable land and sites for affordable housing projects and to adopt targets aligned with those needs and based on recent modelling by AHURI on current and future needs.”
Q Shelter is available for comment on the housing and homelessness solutions that local governments should consider for 2024.
Heffernan Report: socialist/communist labor run by the masonics are paedophile protectors.. as are all politicians who do nothing to reveal the criminals
Is my video a way to beat this problem? A coupe of commenters here are pretty chuffed with my liability solution, so see this:
https://rumble.com/v2yf678-homelessness-equals-governmental-breach-of-contract.html
If you look at Q Shelter’s Facebook page you will see that no-one much comments. yet they are having gabfests all over the place, likely attended by people who are looking for a government funded help-the-homeless job.
The Council For Homeless People crowd offer no services, just a bit of counselling maybe, and touts itself as, quote: “The home of learning and development for Victoria’s Specialist Homelessness Sector. Find live training sessions, access eLearning modules, and develop your skills.”
Fat lot of good that is going to do for someone without a roof over their heads!
And in my town of Geelong, the homeless numbers have gone from a verified 167 less than ten years ago, to now 4000+, with any number of charities saying they are dealing with the homeless.
So much for that-and I have had an email from a local state politician telling me to expect more homelessness, and that, quote:
“The undersupply of housing is a spectacular failure of government at all levels.”
No kidding???
Poor planning or simply too much planning, just look at all the regulations before asking the regulators for more regulating. There should be an opt-out but it’s yet another compulsory arrangement, like Medicare, that we would be better off without. Despite all the regulations we still have hirise apartments cracking up and houses on floodplains washing away. What’s the use of all these self-serving regulators. It would be better if they adopted an advisory role since if they don’t have a financial stake in anything they are regulating, they are bullshitters. Even birds and animals can build houses. Perhaps they should only get involved if an owner built house is sold, and in that case, earn their stamp duty.
Personally, I am perfectly capable of building a house to any number of designs but I never would under this regime, no way.
“Poor planning”?
Our fearless leaders reckon our economy is doing gangbusters. Never better! rotf
Trust the Plan, Normie! The poorer the better! Own nothing and be happy. Have another Soma pill. No need to wake up to yourself, Normie.
You’re right Pat, this is the plan whether legislators know it or not. Useful idiots like Albo are dazzled by how good the Feds, States and local Councils have interacted to destroy affordability of living. From ramping immigration levels to stalling land releases, they have it covered. They made certain they are insulated from the cost of living mess but are happy to destroy the value of labour of others.
zzz3856, said: ” How far we have fallen – Lucky Country no more !”
Yes, you have to be proud of your caring daughter.
It really peeves me off that we are not (as a Nation) doing anything about
getting rid of the grubs who have been and still are causing havoc, death and poverty, as planned by them.
The Lucky Country started to go down hill fast as from late 1972.
Early 1973 I was in the Army posted to Singapore. Lee Kwan Yew was running Singapore at the time.
Love or hate him, he picked Singapore up out of the gutter and very quickly made it a great success.
We are sliding into the gutter, but no Lee Kwan Yew to save us, only criminal politicians, who are destroying us and what used to be our Country.
We will have to save ourselves, or stand aside for the never ending supply of Immigrants who are being imported to replace us.
Returning to the key Western economic system of America as our model [other Western systems are no different], since the creation of the FED in 1913, – the country’s national debt has doubled every eight to nine years.
In 2025, the national debt will be $40 Trillion, which will reach $100 Trillion in around 2036.
As the associated inflation ignites, and the exponential phase is reached, the $100 Trillion mark will presumably be reached prior to 2036. Some analysts suggest in eight years, – so not that long.
As this debt enters its exponential stage, which it will, currency purchasing power will massively collapse and hyperinflation will explode: this is absolutely normal and fully expected.
Those currently living in tent cities are merely the advance guard: being those with no practical financial knowledge or mechanisms to protect themselves. As the exponential phase closes in, the feeding beast will move on to the next weakest group, and so on, up the food chain.
In the U.S., the national debt is presently rising by $1 Trillion every one hundred days, which also means that the currency is devaluing accordingly, whilst inflation is simultaneously rising in line with this, which goes without saying, – that hyperinflation is steadily closing in.
And this is just the beginning: soon the number will fall to eighty days, then seventy days, then fifty days, etc.
This is why we took to the high ground long ago.
tonyryan43, said:
“When are we going to wake up and realise the system is broken and has been for almost half a century? It must be replaced, with all power in the hands of the people. No more leaders or representatives.”
99% agree with what you have said about the article.
But believe that Communities will need representatives who are selected by/from the Communities.
Reps who have limited terms, can be recalled (sacked) by the Communities, live in the Communities, have no memberships of not so secret societies, no political memberships or leanings toward any groups that are not acceptable to the health, safety and harmony of the Communities.
If you mean no political representatives, I go along with that.
“No more leaders” I go along with that.
Leaders take away the decision making abilities of the communities and corrupt others, leaders have power, power corrupts.
Just my two cents worth.
Full credit to the agencies trying to muster some relief for the homeless population, but the article’s headline invokes a cynical response…
“Housing supply at all time low, poor planning from Labor and Liberal, thousands live in tents”
Poor planning MY ARSE!
This IS the “plan”, folks – just one more facet of a meticulously schemed and executed multi-decade campaign to DESTROY our country and bring all Australians to their KNEES ready for the Globalist executioner.
Eight more years, folks. That’s how much more of this rolling Globalist BS we’re going to have to tolerate and survive before we FINALLY get to see EVERY LAST ONE of these sold-out anti-Australian baby-eating bastards swing by the neck.
So says Martin Armstrong’s AI program Socrates, and he’s NEVER been wrong.
I frankly hope they ALL live that long just so we can have the righteous pleasure of watching them ALL DIE AT ONCE, because as THEY like to say, “We’re all in it TOGETHER”. And they HAVE been, right from the start.
So gird your loins and clench those butt cheeks, folks. Dark days ahead.
… and zzz3856 said – “Lee Kwan Yew once said that Australia was destined to become the ‘poor white trash of Asia’…”
Hate to say it, Dude, but that horse bolted long ago.
These tent cities are a recent phenomenon and only started appearing ‘simultaneously’ throughout Western nations around ten to fifteen years ago, it all happened in America, Canada, Britain, Australia and Europe together, and needless to say, – it is the social effect of an economic cause.
So what has drastically changed in the West’s economy over the last decade?
Yes of course, – it’s massive and increasing debt issuance and the accompanying devaluation of the associated currency.
As Western economies are all dependently shackled to the dominant economy of America and its Central Bank, it is here where the central problem must be examined.
Do people monitor the Repo market, no of course not, – as they are also planning on living in a tent city or its nearest neighbourhood.
A Central Bank such as the FED, sells one product, and only one product, – debt. And debt must ‘continue to rise’ just so the current economic system can continue to function at its present level, – which is already severely collapsed and dysfunctional.
But the problem is, – which is a Catch-22 situation, – is that any issuance of new debt causes further devaluation of the currency via dilution, so needless to say, the end result is even more inflation, – which is now approaching into the hyperinflation phase.
For those monitoring the American REPO market [a fraudulent process which ‘fools’ the economy into thinking its more liquid than it really is], any quick perusal of the FED’s website, reveals that the FED has been incrementally winding down its REPO program, – meaning they have been removing vast sums of money from the economy, hence the increasing illiquidity in the economy.
This deliberate winding down of the REPO program leads to less money in the system, which means that the economy can no longer function at its present level.
So what’s the FED’s solution?, well of course, – the Central Bank will now start introducing correspondingly massive amounts of debt into the system, and what will this do?, well of course, – this will massively devalue peoples money further, whilst simultaneously increasing inflation.
In sum, the value, or purchasing power of the peoples money will go down, as the price of goods go up. This is not stagflation, – but dragflation!
And finally, who needs such massive amounts of new debt?, yes indeed, – Mr War Machine, a.k.a. Mr. MIC, as nothing demands such vast amounts of debt as war, so maybe?, this is why war has been correspondingly expanding as the REPO program has been unwinding, – coincidence?
zzz3856
To the heart of the matter, as usual.
There is an ancient saying, so ancient that it never made it to the English language, which interpreted means “Never be ethical with unethical people”. To do so hands your enemy a knife for your exposed back.
We plead with self-seeking and blackmailed politicians for freedom and protection, and request justice from corrupt judges; plainly exercises in futility.
When are we going to wake up and realise the system is broken and has been for almost half a century? It must be replaced, with all power in the hands of the people. No more leaders or representatives.
We all experienced the power of referenda and yet we sit back and wait for the elected to stab us yet again. Most of Europe has woken up and is fighting back yet in Australia we are still rubbing the sleep from our eyes.
Is is so sad to see that we have come to this.. Lee Kwan Yew once said that Australia was destined to become the ‘poor white trash of Asia’ – maybe he was right.
They can afford to give Ukraine a billion dollars of our tax dollars which includes training their neo nazis in the UK. Also supporting the genocide in Israel. !!!!!
My daughter was in line at the Aldi checkout the other day, the woman next to her was counting out change, and asking to use to different credit cards for $7 and $8 dollars to try and pay for her shopping that was $20 odd dollars. My daughter, with tears in her eyes, gave the woman $20 from her purse to pay.. The woman cried and so did my daughter. A random act of kindness which is more necessary now that ever. I could not be more proud of her.
How far we have fallen – Lucky Country no more !
What comes next? Cave dwelling?
Call me a cynic but when Albo sorted out his new one million voter base import he was obviously completely unaware the majority of them will go straight to the top of the cue in priority housing. Ozzies go to the back of the far cue that’s for sure. I don’t know if our little ‘working man’ Albo the clown has made it to his North Shore of labor ambitions yet but he sure is disconnected from the average bloke and the dysfunctional society his ilk have made for us. Oz is so far up shit creek now its better to jump off the sinking boat and drown quickly for poor renters or the homeless. Millions of Ozzis are suffering from inflation, lack of housing, lack of any decent representation, destruction of the environment in the name of saving it and dubious military adventures at the bequest of a corrupted US and our many lobbyists of the chosen. The health systems wheels have fallen off and we have a million new customers to lighten their load so thanks Albo! Meanwhile the wake of their Covid tyranny is littered with broken minds and bodies, lost businesses and peoples lost hopes and dreams.
What a great family experience, – what part of camping don’t you get?
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If they volunteered to be vaccinated, the vaccines which don’t work and were never designed to, with Covid in mind – will sort them out and reduce their dependency of having to live in tents, as was intended – just give the problem time to sort itself out, you will see.
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The Gang leaders of the Gang of Four probably all got their adrenochrome rations from their Handlers for bringing this situation about. Look at all the lives they wrecked with the lockdowns and mandates of their Global Corona Baloney Hoax.
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