The Albanese Government is investing $26 million for enabling civil works including roads, sewerage, water and power to deliver hundreds of new homes in South West Sydney as part of the government's $32 billion plan to overcome a housing crisis a generation in the making.
This investment, through Housing Australia, marks the commencement of the next stage of works at the Bonnyrigg Renewal Project which will provide 65 new social homes and 210 private residential lots.
The Bonnyrigg Renewal Project is a 30‑year urban renewal initiative in which a former housing estate comprising 833 social housing properties and a small number of private dwellings is being redeveloped to deliver about 3,000 homes including 900 social homes.
Australia needs to build more homes, more quickly, because that's how housing will become more affordable, and projects like this underlines Labor's commitment to getting on with the job.
It's why we're already delivering $1.5 billion to states and territories over two years for enabling infrastructure and planning to unlock new homes.
Our Government has an ambitious housing agenda - with $32 billion of commitments - to help Australians to build, rent and buy, and reach our target of 1.2 million homes.
Build
Our plan for 1.2 million homes means we are:
- Training more tradies, funding more apprenticeships, growing the workforce.
- Kickstarting construction by cutting red tape, including a $1.5 billion investment in enabling infrastructure and planning reform.
- Providing incentives to state governments to get homes built quickly.
- Delivering the biggest investment in social housing in more than a decade to help reduce homelessness and to take the pressure out of the rental market.
Rent
We know Australians are doing it tough right now - especially renters. That's why our plan for renters means we are:
- Strengthening renters' rights across Australia - this means minimum rental standards, limiting rent increases to once a year & requiring genuine, reasonable grounds for eviction.
- Delivering a more than 40 per cent increase to Rent Assistance - the largest increase in more than 30 years.
Buy
We know that the best support for renters is home ownership. That's why Labor believes that ordinary Australians should be able to own their own home. Our plan for home ownership means we are:
- Providing a third of first home buyers with a pathway to home ownership through Labor's expanded Home Guarantee Scheme.
- Legislating our Help to Buy Scheme - which will help 40,000 Australians and their families get into home ownership.
Quotes attributable to Minister for Housing and Homelessness, Clare O'Neil MP:
"We have an ambitious plan to build 1.2 million homes over the next 5 years, unlocked by billions of dollars of investment in roads, sewerage, water and power right across Australia."
"Our $26 million investment in enabling infrastructure for Western Sydney has unlocked thousands of new homes, with hundreds of those starting construction today."
"Our Government's housing infrastructure plan provides Australians and their families with more choice about where they want to live - whether that be in apartments or houses, in our cities, suburbs or regions."
"Peter Dutton's infrastructure announcement is a road to nowhere, pushing Australians to live hours away from their families and from their work."
Quotes attributable to NSW Minister for Housing and Homelessness, Rose Jackson:
"There are tens of thousands of working people with good, solid full‑time jobs who just cannot afford to live in Sydney and that's a huge problem.
"Bonnyrigg is one of the state's largest social housing renewal projects and is set to become a vibrant mixed‑use precinct with its new community centre, cafes, shops, town centre and village green.
"This is a perfect example of what we can achieve when all levels of government, community housing providers and industry come to the table with a shared vision to deliver more and better homes for the people who need it most."
Quotes attributable to Traders In Purple Director, Charles Daoud:
"The success of the Bonnyrigg Renewal demonstrates the critical importance of partnerships between the private sector, community housing organisations and all levels of government.
"We are within months of handing over the first completed homes for social housing tenants and are now pushing ahead to deliver the first stage of the new Canvas Bonnyrigg subdivision, 95 per cent of which has already been sold.
"It required a bold vision by the NSW Government to embark on this renewal and it takes a committed effort from all parties to finish what was started and create the homes that will turn the tide of the current housing crisis.
"Every new home is a step towards meeting the ambitious housing targets that have been set, changing lives and giving hope."
