Seems reasonable, takes some of the wind out of NIMBY arguments.
I hope we can see better development, slapping dogshit mc mansion inches from fence single family houses down then calling it a day sucks.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
New South Wales councils that meet and beat new housing targets will be given extra cash by the state government for sporting facilities, parks, footpaths and road maintenance under a $200m grant program.
The premier, Chris Minns, will announce the updated housing targets for 43 councils on Wednesday along with the incentive scheme, as the government attempts to speed up infill development across Sydney.
He said one of the reasons housing targets had failed was the “enormous burden” placed on western Sydney, in areas lacking infrastructure for their growing populations.
“We’ve asked local councils to pick up the slack, to maintain the roads, to provide the parking, to make sure services are there for entire new communities but they haven’t been given the help they need to do it,” he said.
It also announced a speculative plan to build two new metro stations and transform the Rosehill racecourse into a site for tens of thousands of homes, which the premier described as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to deal with the state’s chronic housing crisis.
According to KPMG analysis released on Tuesday, developers have yet to begin work on about 40,000 new homes across Australia – including 11,170 in Sydney – despite being granted building approvals.
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Um… the headline seems to be completely backwards.
Surely the councils that can’t meet the target should get extra funding so they can meet the target?! From the the content of the article, that seems to be what is actually happening.
New South Wales councils that meet and beat new housing targets will be given extra cash for sporting facilities, parks, footpaths and road maintenance as part of the state government’s push to build nearly 400,000 new homes over the next five years.
It seems to be more that housing is already being built but that councils can’t afford to add the supporting infrastructure, so this will help with that. But this should also help with encouraging councils to meet those housing targets, when they know they’ll get additional funding.On closer read, I see what you mean. I think this may be the key point:
The government will set aside $200m in grants to encourage the dozens of councils with updated local housing targets to do more; money will go only to the councils that meet “key milestones”.
I assume those key milestones would not mean they’ve already met the new targets, but have shown progress on them. So councils that aren’t making a sincere effort don’t get the extra funding. Would be nice to see more detail and what the milestones are.
