2017-04-11 P&E Agenda Attachment 1 to Item 1 Housing Needs Assessment

Department of Housing and Public Works (Queensland Government 2016f). Rental stress for this
dataset is based on low income households (households receiving Rent Assistance) that are
spending at least 30% of their income on private rent after any Commonwealth Rent Assistance
that the household receives has been taken into account. At 30 June 2015, there were 1,922 low
income households in Noosa Shire that spent over 30% of their gross household income on
private rental accommodation (Table 31). This was around 52.8% of the total low income
households in private rental accommodation at the time. The proportion of low income
households experiencing rental stress was around 10 percentage points higher than the
proportion for Queensland, and had increased slightly compared to the proportion 12 months
earlier.

Table 31. Rental Stress, Noosa Shire and Queensland, 2014 and 2015

Area                                         30 June 2014                         30 June 2015

                                    Rental Stress      Total Low         Rental Stress      Total Low
                                    Households          Income           Households          Income
                                                     Households in                        Households in
                                                     Private Rental                       Private Rental

Noosa Shire                         1,908 (52.1%)           3,665        1,922 (52.8%)           3,642

Queensland                      132,027 (41.6%)         317,273       139,087 (42.5%)        327,308

Notes: Low income households are households receiving Rent Assistance.
Source: Queensland Government 2016f;

Affordability
Housing affordability refers to the relationship between expenditure on housing (prices,
mortgage payments or rents) and household incomes. It uses a measure of median rental cost
compared to median income.

Median mortgage repayments at 2011 were lower in the Shire ($1,770 per month) compared to
the SEQ Region ($1,794) and the State ($1,850). Median rents were higher in the Shire ($1,445 per
month) compared to the SEQ Region ($1,283) and the State ($1,300).




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