Joshua Byrd :mastodon: on Nostr: The Housing Accord target is 1.2 million dwellings over five years, or 240,000 per ...

The Housing Accord target is 1.2 million dwellings over five years, or 240,000 per year. Seventy per cent of those are to be in established suburbs to save on the infrastructure needed in new greenfield suburbs. That's 168,000 per year.

The average density for dwellings in established areas (houses, units and apartments) is 50 per hectare. Divide 168,000 by that and you get 3,360 hectares, or 33.6 square kilometres.

That's 26 times the size of Melbourne's CBD … every year (across Australia).

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-07/housing-supply-infill-construction-tax-reform-immigration/105499648