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WHAT WE’RE ASKING FOR:
- Reform property tax deductions and incentives to boost social and affordable housing
Set a social housing target of 6% of total housing stock, increase income eligibility and extend the grace period for exiting
Establish a WA Housing Future Fund to fund new social and affordable housing long-term
Build more Youth Foyers accommodation linked to education and employment opportunities
Continue the National Rental Affordability Scheme beyond 2026 and create a similar scheme in WA
Extend the WA Rent Relief Program after 30 June 2025 and include boarders and lodgers
Reform the Residential Tenancies Act to:
End no-grounds evictions
Introduce minimum standards for all rental housing including energy efficiency standards
Establish rent price stabilisation or a capping system
WHAT’S BEEN PROMISED BY THE MAJOR PARTIES:
$50M to support WA’s housing industry to innovate and speed up delivery of homes (3 Mar 2025)
WA Labor to deliver Bunbury housing and construction workforce boost including $25M Regional Housing Support Fund to unlock new Bunbury housing projects (26 Feb 2025)
$30M for new Dorrien Gardens precinct – redevelopment plans include 240 apartments including 40 social and affordable homes (19 Feb 2025)
$130M to increase stamp duty thresholds for first home buyers and multi-residential projects (18 Feb)
$150M to deliver hundreds of new rental, affordable and social homes, including (16 Feb)
$75M Build to Rent Kickstart Fund to support more Build-to-Rent projects
Land tax concessions for Build-to-Rent projects
$79.5M funding to boost social housing delivery to 1,000 homes added a year
$210M boost to the Government’s Keystart equity scheme, which is expected to support delivery or 1,000 new apartments and townhouses (16 Feb)
$19.5M boost in housing and homeless support including (5 Feb 2025)
$6M for new capacity-building program to deliver more community housing
$10.4M to expand the HEART outreach program across Perth and Mandurah
$3.1M to grow the Housing First Support Services in and around Bunbury
$825K for 2,500 new homes in Albany’s north west (29 Jan 2025)
$25M to support delivery of 51 affordable homes in Albany (24 Jan 2025)
WA Labor delivers six new Government Regional Officer Housing (GROH) homes in Kununurra (14 Jan 2025)
Cook gov’t has invested more than $290M in GROH since 2021-22 and is investing a record $4.5B in housing and homelessness across WA
$145M regional housing boost (14 Jan 2025)
$25M Regional Housing Support Fund to support new housing delivery and land supply
$104M to more than double GROH new build program
Regional first homebuyers save up to $17,765 w/ additional stamp duty relief
$16M in support over next four years to benefit an estimated 3,000 first home buyers in regional WA
$5M towards new affordable key worker housing accommodation for Kununurra (13 Jan 2025)
Albanese-Cook govt partnership funds $4.2M for social housing boost in Albany (7 Jan 2025)
Funded through the Albanese gov’t’s Social Housing Accelerator Program (SHAP)
WA Labor delivers 2,500 social homes since 2021-22 (16 Oct 2024)
WA Labor launches WA Youth Action Plan 2024-2027: Koorlangka Bidi (8 Oct 2024)
Increase to social housing income eligibility (16 Sep 2024)
Limits increased by $13 for single income households and $20 for dual income households
$200M for regional road safety and GROH (22 Feb 2025)
$100M for road safety
$100M over three years for GROH (will deliver more than 100 homes and deliver on promise to ‘Build More Homes and to Restore Regional Services’
$940M to tackle the housing crisis, including (4 Feb 2025):
Transfer of 1,000 new social houses to community housing providers to increase their asset base to find new homes
$6M for Community Housing Capacity Building Program to deliver more community housing
Transparency around social housing data
Commitment to maintaining and delivering currently planned expenditure for social and affordable housing and homelessness
$100M to fund new Regional Housing Infrastructure Program (15 Jan 2025)
First $15M investment will unlock 8,500 new homes in Albany
WA Liberals boost housing supply with $20K downsizing stamp duty rebate (7 Dec 2024)
$500M Housing Infrastructure Investment Fund to boost WA’s housing supply by up to 100,000 new homes (3 Nov 2024)
Building a Better Future blueprint for WA with five key priorities including ‘Building More Homes’ (21 Oct 2024)
Stamp Duty concession to save up to $15K for first home buyers (13 Oct 2024)
$1B Building Regional Homes Program to deliver up to 1,000 GROH homes and 500 additional social housing properties in regional WA over the next decade (21 Feb 2025)
$10M to combat homelessness and rough sleeping, including doubling current funding for the Advance to Zero project over next four years, expanding By-Name List to Albany, Broome, Kalgoorlie-Boulder and Karratha, and identifying service gaps via Regional Housing and Homelessness Blueprints (5 Feb 2025)
$1B Regional Headworks Fund to remove infrastructure barriers that have hindered growth outside metropolitan area (8 Nov 2024)
$160M to abolish Stamp Duty for first home buyers (31 Aug 2024)
$20M in targeted support for WA families and builders experiencing stalled construction progress (14 Aug 2024)
Commit to social and affordable housing targets, including building, converting or purchasing a minimum of 5,000 every single year ($2.5B annually) (5 Feb 2025)
Commitment to strengthen renter’s rights including (3 Feb 2024)
Two-year freeze on rent increases and permanent cap on rent increases pegged at CPI +10%
Immediately scrap no-reason evictions from the Residential Tenancies Act
Introduce minimum standards for all public and private rental properties, including minimum standards for heating, cooling and energy efficiency
Tougher controls to stop rent-bidding
Zero interest loans up to $15K for WA homes to buy solar panels, batteries and heating/cooling upgrades plus solar rebates (15 Jan 2025)
Homes Not Hotels: WA Greens announce plan to cap AirBnBs, freeing up thousands of homes for people to live in now (10 Dec 2024)
Establish a National Renters Protection Authority (3 Sep 2024)
ADDITIONAL SOURCE: ABC Election Promises Tracker
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