Media Release: National Housing Targets – a long way off for NSW based on new figures released by Planning today

Urban Taskforce CEO Tom Forrest said today that data released by the Department of Planning showed that the
performance of the NSW planning system over the last 5 years has landed us in the middle of a housing supply crisis,
but the predictions are currently for things to get worse, not better. Housing supply over the last 5 years has simply
failed to keep up with demand.

The release today of a refreshed “Greater Sydney Urban Development Program Dashboard” is all bad news for the
Minister for Planning, Paul Scully and the Minns Government and it shows the parlous state of the planning system
they inherited.

 

Click here to read the media release in full.