Almost 5000 homes will be built in Queensland through an injection of $100m in Federal funding.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said 10 projects would be allocated funding to fast-track housing in regional and metropolitan growth areas.
Prime Minister Albanese said $101.8 million would be spent on critical infrastructure that would unlock more than 4800 homes across the state.
He said funding would be used on enabling infrastructure works such as roads, sewage and water, as well as supporting access to social housing and increasing housing supply.
The funding allocation includes:
- $6.6 million to facilitate two new residential expansion areas in the north and south of Pormpuraaw.
- $1.7 million to help turn 14 lots into 34 lots in Napranum.
- $9.9 million to deliver 32 fully serviced lots in the remote indigenous community of Seisia.
- $5.1 million to support a 20-lot social housing development in Bamaga.
- $1.8 million to improve access and provide essential trunk infrastructure to the social housing development in New Mapoon.
- $1.8 million to deliver two lots on Mornington Island.
- $35.5 million to provide road access, footpaths and storm water drains for the Kinross Road Estate.
- $18.8 million for water and sewerage works in Balamba.
- $10.3 million for trunk infrastructure at Eaton Estate.
- $10.1 million to upgrade the road and provide public transport infrastructure in Narangba.
