2022-11-14 GC Agenda - Item 4 - Attachment 1 - Short Term Accommodation Monitoring Report 2022

           o   Low income households experiencing either rental stress or mortgage stress
               made up around 16% of all households in other comparative LGAs in 2011, but
               this was a significantly higher proportion than for Brisbane with 11.3% or
               Queensland with 12%.
      Noosa Shire appears less affordable than all comparative LGAs, Brisbane City and
       Queensland:
           o   Accommodation affordability is impacted by both low median incomes and high
               median accommodation costs;
           o   Median rents for flats/ units in the Shire are fairly similar to the State but rents
               for houses are higher than the State;
           o   There has been a declining trend in rental vacancy rates over the last five years
               from around 4-5% to around 1-2%;
           o   The median dwelling sale price in Noosa Shire has remained higher than the
               State at all times between 1998 and 2015;
           o   In 2011 median household income was almost $200 below the SEQ Region
               and almost $300 below the State per week.
           o   Between 5-10 additional percentage points of income are needed in Noosa
               Shire to afford a dwelling compared to the next most unaffordable comparative
               LGA considered (which for most indicators was the Gold Coast).


2.3.3 Housing supply and diversity
Around three quarters of Noosa’s 25,272 dwelling stock were separate detached houses
comprising 3-4 bedrooms. The HNA2017 identified the following dwelling stock and dwelling
types in Noosa Shire, notably based on 2011 census data.
       Of the 25,272 private dwellings in Noosa Shire in 2011, 18,828 were detached or
       separate houses (74.5%), 2,489 were semi-detached (9.8%), 3,328 were attached
       (13.2%) and 618 were other dwelling types (2.4%). … below summarises the numbers
       and proportions of the different dwelling types for both unoccupied and occupied
       dwellings as well as dwellings occupied by residents and visitors/tourists.
       Larger proportions of unoccupied dwellings and dwellings occupied only by visitors are
       attached dwellings, compared to dwellings occupied by residents. Around 24% of
       unoccupied dwellings and 28% of dwellings occupied only by visitors were attached
       dwellings, compared with just 9.4% of dwellings occupied by residents being attached.
Notably, of the 25,272 dwelling, 4559 were unoccupied comprising 18% of the total dwelling
stock and an additional 1,602 dwellings were identified as being occupied as visitors. Overall,
24.3% of private dwellings were either unoccupied or occupied by visitors as show in Table 6
in Appendix 2.
In terms of dwelling type, detached separate houses dominated the housing stock with under
20% comprising dwellings semi-attached or attached dwellings as show in Table 7 in Appendix
2. The HNA2017 stated:
Most common Census indicators consider only dwellings occupied by residents on Census
night. If only dwellings occupied by residents on Census night are included, Noosa Shire
reported a similar dwelling structure to the SEQ Region and Queensland, with 79.5% of private
occupied dwellings being separate houses, compared to 76.1% for the SEQ Region and 78.5%
for Queensland.




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