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

13.       Provide culturally responsive housing with support through a frontline service offer for
          Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the housing continuum, including through
          implementing culturally responsive pathway planning and care coordination.
14.       Deliver enhanced frontline service responses for women and families experiencing or at risk
          of domestic and family violence through a specialist response team and flexible assistance
          packages.
15.       Develop and deliver housing with support for older Queenslanders experiencing or at risk of
          homelessness including responses for older women, working with the aged care, health and
          disability sectors.
16.       Deliver rental law reform in Queensland, including minimum housing standards, that better
          protects renters and lessors and improves stability in the rental market.
17.       Finalise implementation of retirement villages reforms to village financial statements and
          contract requirements and implement government's response to the independent panel's
          review of timeframes for payment of resident exit entitlements and buyback requirements.
18.       Deliver improvements for residential (manufactured home) parks and residential services to
          address:
           •   concerns about site rent increases and unsold manufactured homes in residential parks

           •   the impact of significant changes in the community affecting residential services, to
               ensure resident safety, fair trading and viability of the residential service industry.
19.       Enhance the consumer experience and industry engagement across residential (manufactured
          home) parks, residential services and retirement villages including through:
           • targeted communication, compliance and best practice guidance approaches, including
              introduction of a retirement village comparison website

           •   exploring greater support for consumer-operated retirement villages and residential
               parks (such as the potential for home owner co-operatives) to give consumers greater
               choice and control over their retirement living arrangements.
20.       Explore options to improve Queenslanders' access to pre-contractual advice about residential
          (manufactured home) parks and retirement villages and to timely and consistent decision-
          making to help them resolve housing issues and disputes.

6.2            Inclusionary planning
Of particular interest are planning actions to:
      •    Investigate introducing inclusionary planning requirements into the planning framework.
      •    Investigate mandating social and affordable housing as part of Priority Development Areas,
           infrastructure initiatives, and the development or sale of state-owned land suitable for large
           scale residential development.
      •    Review the planning framework’s approach to regulating residential development.
“Inclusionary” planning provisions (or inclusionary zoning) are land use planning interventions that
either mandate or create incentives for the delivery of affordable housing dwellings, usually as a
proportion of a bigger development. Mandatory provisions have been used in South Australia,
Victoria, New South Wales and the ACT, however the Queensland planning system has not
embraced them. There have been some targets and incentives, particularly for priority development



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