2022-11-04 - Special Meeting Agenda Item 1 - Attachment 2 - Consultation Report

5.5 Community survey - importance of social and affordable housing


 Question 5: How important is it to you that social and affordable housing be                          Q5: Importance of making social and affordable housing a
                                                                                                                              priority
 made a priority by Noosa Council? (Likert scale – 5 points) extremely important
 – not important at all.                                                                   350
                                                                                           300
 Of the 667 people who took part in the survey, 653 provided a response to this
                                                                                           250
 question.
                                                                                           200
 For this question, participants were how important it was to them for social and          150   321
 affordable housing to be made a priority by Noosa Council.                                100
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 Findings                                                                                     0
                                                                                          1 - Extremely     2 - Important   3 - Neutral       4 - Low       5 - Not
                                                                                           important                                        importance   important at all
 • Of the 653 responses received, 321 said it was extremely important for
   Noosa Council to prioritise social and affordable housing.

 • 61 people did not believe social and affordable housing was an important
   issue for Noosa Council to prioritise.

 • Correlational analysis was also used to identify how age influenced people’s views on the importance of social and affordable housing.

 • This analysis showed that 90% of those aged 18-24 thought it was extremely important for Noosa Council to make social and affordable housing a priority

 • Responses from each age demographic indicate a very small percentage of people across don’t prioritise social and affordable housing.




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