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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2024-06-27T10:30:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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  <dateModified time="2024-07-31T10:37:29+09:30" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Housing Supply</name>
      <page num="8566" />
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Housing Supply</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6888" referenceid="1b23b655d40349f8a472b7b9eeba16df" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Mr TELFER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Flinders</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2024-06-27T01:00:00+09:30">
            <name>Housing Supply</name>
          </question>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="6888" referenceid="1b23b655d40349f8a472b7b9eeba16df">Mr TELFER (Flinders)</by> (2 May 2024).  </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="6889" referenceid="020b6db900d1457ebfe4919753f9c64a" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Taylor</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Housing and Urban Development</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Housing Infrastructure</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Planning</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2024-06-27T01:00:00+09:30">
            <name>Housing Supply</name>
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            <by role="member" id="6889" referenceid="020b6db900d1457ebfe4919753f9c64a">The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION (Taylor—Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Housing Infrastructure, Minister for Planning):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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        <text id="202406273b57437421cc437380000871">
          <inserted>In South Australia, on average over 10 years (2013-2022), 10,700 dwellings have been built.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202406273b57437421cc437380000872">
          <inserted>This figure dropped to 9,248 during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, whilst the peak number of dwellings created over the last 10 years was 14,073. </inserted>
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          <inserted>Based on the recent decline in building approvals, the number of dwellings built in 2024-25 is expected to decrease slightly but remain around the 10-year average. </inserted>
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          <inserted>However, beyond 2024-25, an increase in annual dwelling completions is expected to exceed the 10-year average, as the National Housing Accord and other housing stimulus measures—including those in the South Australian government's A Better Housing Future plan—take effect.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
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