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

Table 38 Housing Register by segment of need 30 June 2020

 SA2                                                   Segment of need                                        Total
                                                                                                       applications
                                  Very high          High            Moderate          Low

                               Number    %      Number      %      Number    %      Number    %     Number

 Noosa Hinterland                   18   57.0          9    28.0         5   14.5         -   0.5                31

 Tewantin                           38   56.6         20    29.6         9   13.5         -   0.2                67

 Noosaville                         47   59.0         21    25,8       12    15.0         -   0.2                80

 Noosa Heads                                                       Not available

 Sunshine Beach                     16   54.5          6    20.1         8   25.4         -    0                 30

 Peregian Beach - Marcus                                           Not available
 Beach

 Queensland                     14,698   56.9      6,116    23.7    4,438    17.2      601    2.3            25,853

Source: Department of Housing and Public Works 49
Beyond the formal waiting list there are many local residents seeking assistance with temporary or
permanent housing. Charities, service providers, Council staff and Councillors, local members and
the other groups and individuals within the communities are frequently called on to assist. Accurate
numbers of people in need are very difficult to establish.
11.3          Community Housing, Transitional Housing, and Emergency Housing
There is a limited stock of community housing, transitional and emergency housing in Noosa Shire
and there has not been a significant change since the Briggs & Mortar Housing Needs Assessment
was prepared in 2017. Compared to other coastal local government areas in SEQ where 12% - 17%
of Social Housing is Community Housing, just 4.5% is in Noosa Shire50.
The State has taken a small number of head leases and arranging other emergency accommodation
through hostels etc.
In the 2020-2021 financial year there were no allocations made to social housing in Noosa Shire
delivered by registered community housing providers. In the 2019-2020 financial year there had
been four allocations, after having been none in either 2018-2019 or 2017-18 and just one in 2016-
17.


11.3.1              Coast2Bay Housing Group
In July 2021 the only Tier 1 registered community housing provider operating in Noosa Shire is
Coast2Bay Housing Group (C2B), an independent, not-for-profit company providing housing
throughout the Sunshine Coast, Noosa, Moreton Bay, Redcliffe and Gympie regions.
C2B have a number of Housing Assistance Programs, including:



49 Note: The Department had a major system change from October 2019 which lead to changes to how the

Housing register was calculated. Prior to October 2019 the Housing Register was calculated based on the
count of the first waitlist area preference, however from October 2019, counts of applications are weighted
based on all listed waitlist areas. For example an application with five listed waitlist areas will have a weighting
of 0.2 for each waitlist area.
50 As at 30 June 2020, according to Department of Housing and Public Works




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