You have to build up to stop building out. But can higher housing density bring about affordability?
at a higher density.Now the Queensland government wants to build nearly 900,000 new homes in the region by 2046.
Liz Allen, from the Australian National University, says the only way to house everyone is to "go up". And she says it's increasingly how we will be living, if we want to protect our climate and lifestyle. "We are going to need to embrace this kind of living going forwards because our current ways are not sustainable."In the past decade the proportion of detached houses approved in the state's south-east has actually increased, to 64 per cent of approvals overall in 2021.
The government's big push relies on regulation and rezoning for it to get off the ground, by amending how much can be built and where.And just because developers can build more, and higher, it doesn't mean they will — or that they will do it in a way that makes homes cheaper, he says. "If the state truly wants to make affordable housing, it should be building tens of thousands of new houses every single year or even buying existing houses."Looking from Highgate Hill across South Brisbane towards Milton, Paddington and Rosalie, circa 1948.The state's plan includes "dwelling diversity" targets, to encourage more compact development like townhouses and mid-density apartments.
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