Page 1541 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 4 May 2016

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same category of people living in Melbourne and is the second highest percentage after Inner Sydney;

(j) housing stress has a range of detrimental impacts on a person, including financial pressures, as well as impacts on mental health and wellbeing;

(k) the affordability of housing in Canberra is directly related to the rate, timeliness and manner of release of development-ready land; and

(l) the affordability of housing in Canberra is also related to the high cost of Government fees and charges; and

(2) calls on the ACT Government to:

(a) fully implement measures in the Affordable Housing Action Plan to provide the capacity for houses in the “affordable” range;

(b) provide new affordable housing sector supply through private financing;

(c) acknowledge that increasing supply is the only sustainable solution to the provision of market supplied affordable housing for purchase and rental markets. Increasing the housing supply/stock will ensure that supply can meet or exceed demand, therefore moderating price increases, leading to more affordable housing;

(d) guarantee loans to the Community Housing Provider (CHP) sector;

(e) remove barriers that prevent CHPs from recycling their assets;

(f) raise or guarantee affordable housing bonds;

(g) include the active responsibility and administration for responding to homelessness in the role of housing ministers and their departments, including renaming the position to Minister for Housing and Homelessness, with clearly defined strategic responsibility for ensuring that sufficient housing is available for people experiencing exclusion;

(h) amend the ACT Human Rights legislation to recognise the right to housing;

(i) amend ACT anti-discrimination legislation to protect those in housing deprivation;

(j) independently benchmark land development costs every two years;

(k) repeal the lease variation charge in the city and town centres;

(l) establish shovel ready inventory of land for development ahead of demand, based on population projections;

(m) provide information to the Assembly detailing median house prices over the past 10 years, including a breakdown of what percentage is attributable to, the cost of land, the cost of Government fees and charges,

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