Submission to the Council on Federal Financial Relations Affordable Housing Working Group

In this joint submission, SVA shares its recommendations on the drivers of improving housing outcomes along with key recommendations to support more social and affordable housing.

Macquarie Group Limited and SVA jointly submitted a proposal to the Council on Federal Financial Relations Affordable Housing Working Group advocating for a new, scalable financing model for social and affordable housing (SAH) in Australia. SVA highlighted:

• the potential of private sector financing to bridge the supply gap, given the limited scale of SAH finance in Australia compared to the UK and US
• key improvements to facilitate private sector financing, including scale generation, return adequacy, demand pipelines, and regulatory reform
• ‘Model 1’ from the Issues Paper, a funding aggregator, would best facilitate private sector debt finance for large-scale housing developments.