Page 412 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 10 February 2021
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actions to support the housing and homelessness sector through the COVID-19 Health Emergency.
(c) the important role of community housing providers in delivering affordable housing to Canberrans;
(d) the 10th Assembly Parliamentary and Governing Agreement outlines commitments to support housing affordability in Canberra including growing social and affordable rental housing;
(3) acknowledges that:
(a) the ACT has several shared equity arrangements between community housing providers and the ACT Government, where the ACT Government hold an interest in a community-owned property;
(b) funding was announced last year to commence the policy design work for an expanded Land Rent scheme in an ACT context, investigate the feasibility of a broad-ranging shared equity scheme, and additional build-to-rent programs, under the ACT Housing Strategy;
(c) the 2020-2021 Budget expands the Community Housing Land Tax Exemption scheme to provide for up to 250 properties to participate, an action under the Parliamentary and Governing Agreement;
(d) the Federal Government’s National Rental Affordability Scheme is ceasing and has provided a direct rental subsidy to community housing managed affordable rental properties;
(e) in their 2020-21 Budget, NSW has proposed transitioning from stamp-duty and aggregated land tax charges to an annual property based tax similar to ACT’s general rates and land tax; and
(f) the Indicative Land Release Program is continually reviewed to respond to market and economic conditions and ensures enough land is released to cater for Canberra’s population growth and demand for housing; and
(4) calls on the ACT Government to:
(a) continue to implement the ACT Housing Strategy to support the growth of social, community and affordable housing;
(b) continuing working with stakeholders, including community housing providers, on the implementation of the ACT Housing Strategy;
(c) continue implementing the 10th Assembly Parliamentary and Governing Agreement; and
(d) continue to advocate for the continuation of the Federal Government’s National Rental Affordability Scheme.”
I am not going to speak for too long on this motion, because this morning I spoke a lot about the year 2 update for the Housing Strategy which I released. I refer members to my speech this morning.
I do want to touch on some of the comments that Mr Parton made, taking us back to the election in October last year, when the Canberra Liberals’ commitment was a $100 million loan in the housing and homelessness space to community housing providers. It is completely, totally, unfeasible that a $100 million loan would build 1,200 properties. Even if it was feasible to build 1,200 community housing properties, $100 million is not enough money.
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