Noosa Housing Strategy - Update

Councillor, is this report basically is an update to the Housing Strategy that Council adopted in December 2022. Council was unanimous in their prioritising a strategy to sort of assist with housing crisis that, you know, it's just has been experiencing. Part as of that Housing Strategy, one of the commitments was ongoing monitoring and updating on the situation. So this report provides an update on where Council's at with all the actions within the strategy, and it also specifically looks at a monitoring program that will commence sort of create a benchmark that can then be reported every two years going forward. Over the last year, Council's appointed a housing partnerships officer who's advancing housing projects on Council-owned land. He's working with not-for-profit accommodation providers and government agencies with an interest in housing. He's been applying for grant funding and has been successful in some of that. The Planning Scheme amendments that were prepared went through community consultation were altered and then went back to the State for final sign-off we've purchased a subscription to ID.com housing profile. Which gives us data driven information that we can complement with our own more regular monitoring as well so all of that feeds into the monitoring process that we're suggesting going forward. This report's just looking for Council endorsement of that monitoring program.