{"id":814130,"date":"2026-07-21T10:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/814130\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:08:13","slug":"labor-federal-governments-housing-australia-future-fund-housing-targets-were-unachievable-treasury-warned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/814130\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Federal government\u2019s Housing Australia Future Fund housing targets were unachievable, Treasury warned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury warned the federal government nine months before the $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund kicked off that its initial target of 30,000 new social and affordable rental homes in five years was unachievable because the building sector was unable to deliver it and there were inconsistent planning and regulatory systems between states.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury advised the government in March 2023, six months before legislation enabling the HAFF passed the Senate, then again in June and September and \u201cthroughout 2024 and 2025\u201d that the targets were unlikely to be met, an Australian National Audit Office report disclosed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Treasury warned the federal government nine months before the $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund kicked off that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-814130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814130","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=814130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}