UDIA National’s 2020/21 pre-budget submission focuses on three core themes:
- Making new residential construction a public policy priority due to the economic significance of the sector;
- Prioritising policies that both help with the economic recovery, and provide lasting benefits well beyond the period of the pandemic; and
- Prioritising policies which help cut red and green tape, transform inefficient and inequitable taxes and secure better dividends from infrastructure investment.
The key themes from the submission include:
- Stimulate the economy via housing construction
- Streamlining green tape
- Busting the barriers to housing supply
- Reducing the red tape on housing
- Leveraging infrastructure to diversify housing stock