News

10 February 2025

Housing is vital for us to maintain a strong and vibrant economy and society. In my electorate of Warringah, it still remains an ongoing and pressing issue, as in many other places in our country.

In our basic hierarchies of needs, safety is paramount. Feeling safe means we have systems to support us, to ensure the safety of our families and loved ones, and this has to start with secure and affordable housing.

My office has a housing survey open to better understand the views of Warringah and the measures that could play a key role in addressing housing supply and demand. So I encourage everyone across Warringah to have their say before the survey closes.

So far we've heard from many different people in the community have been locked out of buying a home and struggling to afford rent. These are the people who deliver our essential services, young families and our renting retirees. We’ve heard from local business who rely on workers on visas who cannot get housing for their employees close to their work.

So the problem is widespread.

In areas like North Sydney and Crows Nest, they are looking to build more than 7000 residences over the next five years which will provide some critical access to Sydney Metro. But we then need to do more than just focus on construction to increase supply. We know that you also have to do much more around better utilisation of the current stock that we have in relation to the use of the home.

So I call the government to commit to meaningful reform when it comes to tax and utilisation to make sure we increase supply through all means.