Building Homes for NSW
The NSW Government is making its largest ever investment in social housing and homelessness with the $6.6 billion Building Homes for NSW package, announced in the 2024–25 NSW Budget.
About Building Homes for NSW
The $6.6 billion investment is the largest made by an NSW Government into social housing in the state’s history. It will fund new social housing properties, improve maintenance of public housing and boost homelessness support services. This includes for women and children escaping domestic violence, Aboriginal people and their families, older Australians, those living with a disability and young people without family support. |
What the package consists of
The $6.6 billion Building Homes for NSW program will:
- Build 8,400 new public homes – giving priority to women and children fleeing violence. This is the largest ever investment by a NSW Government to build new, good quality, public homes. Half of these homes will go to victim survivors of domestic and family violence – because you can’t leave violence if you don’t have somewhere safe to go.
- Deliver more than 21,000 affordable and market homes. This program will help deliver 21,000 affordable and market homes across our state using well located land that is sitting empty and unused. The Building Homes Program will also deliver affordable rental homes for key workers so they can live where they work and be a part of the communities that rely on them.
- Fix 30,000 public homes in desperate need of repair. We’ll repair, restore and fix 30,000 public homes to make them safe and liveable – the biggest investment in maintenance ever – providing tenants with dignity and respect. We are also bringing public housing maintenance back in-house so the Government takes control and responsibility.
- Repair 3,500 Aboriginal Housing Office (AHO) homes We also will repair and fix over 3,500 AHO homes, as part of genuine action to Close the Gap.
- Help fix our planning system. We’re undertaking the biggest planning reforms in a generation – building communities around public transport and existing infrastructure as well as fast tracking social and affordable housing approvals.
- Extend the Homes NSW Cadetship Program to deliver jobs as well as homes. We have to work with everyone to help solve the housing crisis. That’s why we will extend funding for a further four years to our partners in the Community Housing Industry Association NSW to deliver the Homes NSW Cadetship Program. This will continue to bring more lived experience and genuine employment outcomes across the social housing sector.
Additional support for homelessness
In addition to building and repairing public housing, the NSW Budget will invest $528 million to tackle homelessness by:
- Confronting the crisis. We’re investing in homelessness services and properly funding crisis accommodation all while building homes to tackle long-term homelessness.
- Support the front-line service sector to stop people falling through cracks. Vital support to help frontline services deliver critical support to clients, as well as funding to grow Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs) to support culturally informed responses for Aboriginal people experiencing homelessness.
- Create the Homelessness Innovation Fund. An important new fund that will work with those on the frontline to deliver innovative responses to the current crisis, with a focus on our goal of making homelessness rare, brief and non-recurring.
Download the brochure
Download the Building Homes for NSW brochure (PDF 1.46MB).
