Housing Support Program

About the Program

The Australian Government's $1.5 billion Housing Support Program (HSP) is one of a range of measures designed to help achieve the National Housing Accord's target of building 1.2 million new, well-located homes over 5 years from 1 July 2024. There are three streams under the HSP.

$500 million is available for state, territory and local governments over 2023-24 to 2024-25 to support the delivery of increased housing supply by funding projects that seek to deliver enabling infrastructure and provide amenities to support new housing development or improve building planning capability. More specifically the program will support:

  • Infrastructure projects that support new housing, such as connecting essential services like water, power, sewage, and roads.
  • Infrastructure projects that provide amenities to support new housing, including shared facilities like community centres and parks.
  • Building planning capability, including resources to support increased delivery of new housing and master planning to support increasing housing in well-located areas.

Stream 1 aims to provide funding to state, territory and local governments for projects which will improve planning capability. Successful Stream 1 projects were announced by the Prime Minister, the Hon Anthony Albanese MP, the Hon Catherine King MP, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, and the Hon Julie Collins MP, Minister for Housing, Homelessness and Small Business, on 5 July 2024.  The joint media release is available and the list of successful projects is below.

The second stream, the Community Enabling Infrastructure Stream (CEI), has now closed. The CEI Stream will provide funding to local, state and territory governments for enabling infrastructure and community amenity projects.

The department is currently assessing applications and expects an announcement on successful projects in late 2024. Payments will be made through state-based schedules to the Federation Funding Agreement—Affordable Housing, Community Services and Other.  Payments will be made by the Australian Government to the relevant state or territory. State or territory governments will forward Commonwealth funding contributions to eligible local governments.

An additional $1 billion was announced for the Priority Work Stream during the 2024–25 Budget; which will provide funding to state and territory governments for significant enabling infrastructure and deliver social housing.  The state-based schedules can be found at Housing Support Program—Priority Works.

All enquiries must be directed to the Housing Support Program inbox at PPDHousingSupportBranch@infrastructure.gov.au.

Resources

Community Enabling Infrastructure Stream

Program Guidelines

Webinar

The department facilitated a webinar about Stream 2 of the program and its application process on Wednesday 17 July 2024.

You can view the webinar recording, transcript and answers to queries posed to the department during the Housing Support Program webinar below. If you asked a specific question that you do not believe has been addressed, please send your query to PPDHousingSupportBranch@infrastructure.gov.au.

Stream 1

Successful Projects

Program Guidelines