{"id":212977,"date":"2025-10-14T15:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/212977\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:13:07","slug":"regional-australia-needs-dedicated-housing-plan-hia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/212977\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional Australia needs dedicated housing plan: HIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He added that the <a href=\"https:\/\/hia.com.au\/our-industry\/-\/media\/files\/newsroom\/submissions\/2025\/housing-the-regions-advocacy_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HIA\u2019s Housing the Regions report<\/a> is intended to encourage discussion on easing pressure in capital cities by working with regional communities to develop solutions for their expanding populations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0376_638954321862451843.png\" style=\"height: 252px; width: 250px; float: right;\"\/>\u201cThe number of Australians moving from cities to the regions continues to grow, and this trend is expected to increase in the coming years as more people get priced out of living in metropolitan areas,\u201d Croft (pictured right) said. \u201cThere are now 8.5 million people living in regional Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpamag.com\/au\/mortgage-industry\/market-updates\/house-prices-edge-up-as-rents-show-signs-of-stabilising\/549169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">high house prices<\/a> and cost-of-living pressures biting, many people are realising the regions can offer the lifestyle they want and the jobs they&#8217;re after, minus big city problems &#8211; like long commute times, tolls and traffic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis shift in population highlights the importance of the need for appropriate investment in the regions to bolster services, skills and infrastructure needed to support a growing population. Even more critically, it reinforces the importance and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpamag.com\/au\/news\/general\/policy-shift-sought-for-regional-housing-and-service-delivery\/552031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">need for a targeted regional housing plan<\/a> that includes the volume of supply needed and providing affordable and diverse housing options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Croft identified several challenges facing regional housing development, including limited access to build-ready land, underinvestment in essential infrastructure, and workforce shortages across construction and planning roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added that the HIA\u2019s Housing the Regions report is intended to encourage discussion on easing pressure in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,90893,7688,44,74432],"class_list":{"0":"post-212977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-hia","11":"tag-housing","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-regional-australia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}