Housing

A place to call home with the Securing Our Housing Foundations Plan

The LNP has the Right Plan to ensure Queenslanders have a place to call home.

The Securing our Housing Foundations Plan has been developed after listening to hundreds of Queenslanders left living out of their cars, falling behind in their skyrocketing rents and locked out of owning their own home under Labor’s Housing Crisis.

It has never been more difficult to find, secure or keep a roof over your head as it is right now in Queensland. After years of slowing construction and fewer homes being built now than a decade ago, we do not have the homes to house Queenslanders. Not only has Labor failed to release the land for new homes, they have failed to build the infrastructure needed to get homes out of the ground.

Queenslanders deserve the choice to buy their own home or have affordable rental options.

Queensland needs a fresh start. Our plan will deliver a place to call home for more Queenslanders by securing our housing foundations.

The LNP will unlock land for new housing, build better communities, boost home ownership, ease pressure on rents and help vulnerable Queenslanders put a roof over their head. That’s our commitment to Queenslanders.

Better planning

To secure the land needed for new homes across our State:

• We will develop a new Regional Plan for every corner of our state.
• We will deliver an Infrastructure Plan to support every Regional Plan, for every area of Queensland.
• We will get more Queenslanders into homes faster by refocusing Economic Development Queensland to deliver homes in Priority Development Areas.
• We will protect our Queensland lifestyle by planning and delivering community infrastructure for the future.

Building better communities

With the infrastructure needed:

• We will kickstart new housing developments through a $2 billion housing infrastructure investment fund.
• We will help build homes and deliver housing infrastructure in regional communities by securing a minimum $1 billion investment.
• We will ensure new homes aren’t delayed by working with Councils to build the water and sewerage connections, street lighting, roads and parks in new housing developments.

Streamlined housing approvals

To get homes out of the ground sooner:

• We will allow Queenslanders to build their new home sooner and more easily by working directly with Councils to streamline housing approvals.
• We will meet our target of one million homes over 20 years by scaling-up the number of houses approved by 25% in the next five years.

No stamp duty on new homes

For first home buyers:

• We will abolish the stamp duty tax for new homes for every first home buyer.
• We will boost young Queenslanders’ buying power by ensuring they don’t pay a single cent in stamp duty tax for new builds, saving more than $24,000 on an $850,000 home.

Buy earlier with less savings

With our shared equity program:

• We will close the deposit gap for 1,000 Queenslanders who don’t have savings to get into their first home, investing $165 million into a shared equity program.
• Our plan will allow Queenslanders to get into their first home with as little as a 2% deposit by funding 30% equity in new homes and 25% in existing homes, up to $750,000.

More affordable rental options

By lifting restrictions:

• We will immediately increase rental supply by removing restrictions on first home buyers renting out a room in their first year of ownership.
• We will provide more rental options for Queenslanders by getting more homes built faster.
• We will save renters up to $700 a year by funding grants for solar panels on rental homes.

Homes with purpose

To house Queenslanders in need:

• We will deliver 53,500 additional social and community homes by 2044.
• We will build 10,000 new community houses on church and charity-owned land, in partnership with the Community Housing Sector, with 500 homes built within two years.
• We will invest the $2 billion Housing Investment Fund into building new social housing.
• We will provide emergency accommodation for vulnerable women and children with ten new and replaced domestic and family violence shelters.
• We will help keep youth off the streets and deliver eight youth supported accommodation services.
• We will help get Queenslanders sleeping rough into accommodation by boosting after hours outreach homeless services.