2021-12-13 GC Agenda - Item 8 -Attachment 1 - Housing Needs Assessment

2.1            Housing Continuum
Many governments and organisations describe the range and types of housing in a community as
the housing continuum. This starts with a lack of housing, or homelessness, and includes emergency
shelters, supportive or transitional housing, social or subsidised housing, cooperative housing, then
to the broader market rental housing and home ownership. People in the first half of the continuum
are broadly in need of assistance to secure safe shelter. It can be argued that success relies on
people moving up the housing continuum, however the reality is that many will not progress out of
assisted housing. There are many different graphics used to illustrate the housing continuum. Figure
5 below is a simple reflection of the Queensland situation.
Figure 5 Housing Continuum


                                                                        Private
                    Emergency                                                       Private
    Homelessness                                                        market
                      or crisis        Public      Community                        market           Home
     & sleeping                                                       affordable
                      accom-          housing     rental housing                     rental        ownership
       rough                                                            rental
                     modation                                                       housing
                                                                       housing




2.2            Unmet Housing Needs
In Noosa Shire, as with other areas there’s a spectrum of unmet housing needs, as illustrated below.
Not all of these are in crisis situations or unable to secure shelter, but they may not be able to secure
the type or tenure of homes that best meet their needs.
Figure 6 Unmet Housing Needs




         Homeless,             Low Income
         Domestic            individuals and
                                                                                      First Home
          violence               families       People with a        Key workers,
                                                                                     Buyers, Elderly
          victims,              including         Disability          Students
                                                                                       and others
          Complex               centrelink
       support needs            recipients




Crisis or emergency housing is needed for individuals or families who are homeless or at risk of
homelessness, including those sleeping rough, victims of domestic violence and people with
complex support needs.
Homelessness is a lack of one or more elements that represent ‘home’. When a person does not
have suitable accommodation alternatives, the ABS defines someone as homeless if their current
living arrangement:
•       is a dwelling that is inadequate,
•       has no tenure, or if their initial tenure is short and not extendable, or
•       does not allow them to have control of, and access to, space for social relations.
At the 2016 census there were 110 people recorded as homeless in Noosa Shire, 68 of whom were
in Noosa Hinterland. The community present at Johns Landing at the time would have contributed

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