Plea to back build-to-rent to ease housing shortfall

Developers warn the federal $10 billion Housing Future Fund will not cut Australia's social housing shortfall unless it backs build-to-rent. The lobby estimates the fund could deliver about 21,000 social and affordable homes a year, against a shortfall of 102,883. President Maxwell Shifman said reforms must match build-to-sell.

As I told The Australian: “BTR can be delivered by the development industry at scale with implementation of reforms that level the playing field with build-to-sell housing,”

Plea to back build-to-rent to ease housing shortfall

The Australian, 24 November 2022