Homes for NSW discussion paper – Have your extended until 17 January 2024

The details of the consultation can be found on https://www.haveyoursay.nsw.gov.au/homes-nsw-plan. A webinar on the paper will be held on Monday 9 December at 12pm, you can register for it on Zoom here.

Two discussion papers have been released:

Homes NSW say short paper is most relevant to community and consumers. It asks for feedback on the following questions:

1. Our proposed vision is ‘Everyone has access to a decent home and support if they need it’. What does that mean to you?
2. What changes would make it easier for people to access social housing, and other housing and homelessness services they need?
3. What changes should we make to improve the management of social housing tenancies?
4. How do we make sure the homes we’re building now are the right ones for our customers, now and into the future?
5. How can the housing and homelessness system work more smoothly for customers?

Homes NSW say the longer discussion paper is most relevant to partners and housing or homelessness providers. It asks for feedback on the following questions:

1. Does the vision that ‘Everyone has access to a decent home and support if they need it’ provide an appropriate system-wide purpose and direction for all providers to work towards over the next 10 years?
2. Are these the right priorities to achieve the vision?
3. What does great engagement with tenants and communities look like?
4. Have we missed any challenges or possible reforms around customer-driven service?
5. What changes do you think we should make to improve social housing access and tenancy management?
6. How do we make sure the homes we build in the next few years are the right ones to meet the current urgent need, and the needs of our customers in the long term?
7. What changes should we make to ensure strong and sustainable estate communities?
8. What actions would make the biggest impact in creating a housing and homelessness system that works?
9. What actions would make the biggest impact to increase self-determination for Aboriginal people and families across the NSW housing and homelessness system?
10. What are the risks and opportunities in developing an agreed set of system-wide measures to track progress against the priorities and objectives?

Having your say:

Homes NSW has two online surveys one each for each paper which it says if you have the discussion paper open you should be able to complete in 10 minutes for the short paper and 25 minutes for the long paper. The Surveys can be found at https://www.haveyoursay.nsw.gov.au/homes-nsw-plan/survey . 

You can also have your say by sending an email to theplan@homes.nsw.gov.au

The current Homes NSW Discussion Paper is running concurrently with a Consultation on draft NSW Homelessness Strategy 2025-2035 which is open for feedback until 14 February 2025. The Homelessness Strategy is a state wide strategy, while the Homes NSW discussion paper relates primarily to the operation of the Homes NSW agency.

Next Stage

Homes NSW say your feedback will help it produce a Homes for NSW Plan which will be released in early 2025. The plan will focus on the housing and homelessness system, including:

• management of existing social housing
• how we can build more and better social and affordable homes
• what we can do to ensure homelessness is rare, brief and not repeated
• how all parts of the system can work better together
• how we can get the best possible outcomes for our customers including tenants, people waiting for social housing and people experiencing homelessness