Housing Supply

Mr TELFER (Flinders) (14:20): Supplementary: how many new homes are expected to be built in 2024-25?

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION (Taylor—Minister for Trade and Investment, Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Housing Infrastructure, Minister for Planning) (14:20): We came off a record high of about 14,000; the industry is anticipating about 10,000 starts. That is just under our normal level of activity which is normally around the 11,000 mark. I will take the question on notice and I will get the figures in the past, each and every year, of what South Australia has built. It's obvious that we haven't been building enough supply. Blind Freddie could tell you that, any man in the street could tell you that, anybody trying to rent a home could tell you that.

All I am trying to do is give you some context about why we are where we are. It's because of the actions of previous governments: the Marshall government, the Morrison government. They overcooked in one year. We all know what happened with HomeBuilder, where they stretched supply lines, where they nearly broke the industry, where we had a profitless boon. What we're going to do is release land into the market, we're going to put civil infrastructure in, we're going to work with industry to build homes and we're going to work with them to sustainably increase the numbers over the next following years.