The QCOSS reportA blueprint to tackle Queensland’s housing crisis was released on Monday morning,weeks before the Queensland government would reconvene its Housing Summit.
The reports also promotes the use of “inclusionary zoning” to mandate a proportion of social and affordable housing in larger residential developments.
“It is used across the UK and in some parts of the US to augment affordable housing supply and,to a much more limited extent,in a small number of Australian jurisdictions;South Australia,ACT and in the City of Sydney,” the report states.
Brisbane median rental increases between March 2020 and September 2022 – 33 per cent for houses and 23 per cent for apartments – were “close to the highest rental inflation rates for any capital city during the period”.
With calls growing for price caps,Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the government was “looking very seriously at how a rental cap can be put in place”.
“I understand that this is a big issue for families,they are constantly being faced with huge increases in rent,” Palaszczuk told reporters on Monday.