Sunshine Coast housing and homelessness action plan 2023

Council endorsed the Sunshine Coast Housing and Homelessness Action Plan 2023 (PDF, 2.8MB) at its Ordinary Meeting on 27 July 2023.

A Progress Update for 2024 has been prepared to record and highlight the achievements since the Action Plan was endorsed by Council.

Purpose

The purpose of the Housing and Homelessness Action Plan 2023 is to reinforce council’s commitment to facilitating affordable and diverse housing options and to build our capacity to respond to homelessness and support community-led initiatives.

Overview

Like many parts of Queensland and the country, Sunshine Coast is experiencing a “housing crisis”, driven largely by declining housing affordability. Housing affordability is defined as the impacts of the prevailing economics, financial and social costs associated with housing demand and supply, that may constrain the ability of households to own or rent their own home and represents the underlying costs of developing housing for the market.

The successful delivery of improved housing and homelessness support is reliant on a collaborative and integrated approach between industry, government and community. This action plan frames the collaboration and integration necessary to achieve the outcomes to support the community of the Sunshine Coast.

The Sunshine Coast housing and homelessness action plan focuses on 5 key activities to improve the housing response at the local level:

• delivery
• facilitation
• advocacy
• building capacity
• building our knowledge.

Progress Update 2024

A progress update has been prepared to record and highlight the achievements since the Action Plan was endorsed by Council.

Progress Update 2024 (PDF, 737.6KB)

Delivery – Marcoola Affordable Housing Project

Eleven vacant and development-ready residential properties, owned by Council, have been identified for the provision of housing.

To find out more, please access the fact sheet and construction updates in the links below. 

Fact Sheet - Marcoola Affordable Housing Project (PDF, 757.3KB)

Construction Update - Project News - Marcoola (PDF, 487.9KB)

Key Workers in Sunshine Coast - November 2024

Key workers are essential to the Sunshine Coast economy, representing 70% of the region’s workforce in 2021. This group includes workers in healthcare, retail, hospitality and education sectors, playing critical roles in supporting local residents, businesses and services.

This report provides an overview of the socio-demographic, economic and housing traits of key workers in the Sunshine Coast region.

Key findings include:

• key workers experience higher levels of housing stress compared to other workers
• most key workers cannot afford to own a home
• key workers are earning lower incomes than non-key workers
• key workers are more likely to be younger and female
• key workers are projected to grow.

Sunshine Coast Key Workers November 2024 (PDF, 3MB)

For more information, please contact council.