Provide, not demand, driving housing disaster – REIWA

REIWA President Joe White (pictured above) recognized the actual problem behind rising property costs in Perth as a major hole between provide and demand, fairly than particular market sectors like buyers or child boomers.

“What is definitely pushing costs up is the numerous imbalance between provide and demand, not a selected sector of the property market,” White mentioned.

Inhabitants progress outpaces new dwelling building

Western Australia noticed a inhabitants enhance of three.3% in 2023, including round 31,600 new households needing lodging, whereas solely 16,800 personal dwellings had been accomplished.

This shortfall of about 15,000 houses has exacerbated the housing disaster.

“We’re not constructing sufficient new houses to fulfill demand,” White mentioned.

Requires bureaucratic reform and modern options

White requires lowering bureaucratic hurdles and exploring numerous housing choices like medium-density housing and demountable houses to handle the provision problem.

“There may be an excessive amount of bureaucratic effort in telling folks the place they’ll’t dwell fairly than the place they’ll dwell,” he mentioned, advocating for a extra proactive method to easing the housing scarcity.

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