Today’s housing dashboard figures reinforce what we already knew about the Liberals – they are massively failing to deliver on their housing promises, and they can’t be trusted to deliver on any of their announcements.

Buildings approved in the year to May 2024 was 2,587, which is 20 per cent lower than the number of approvals in the year to May 2023. Dashboard numbers also show 4,709 Tasmanians are waiting for social housing.

The Liberals set a target to build 10,000 new homes by 2032, but earlier this month, Housing Minister Felix Ellis was forced to admit that the Liberals had only built six homes in six years under the “fast-track” housing policy, while also confessing that they were counting vacant blocks of land towards their new build target.

Short of counting tents and cars in that target, the Liberals are set to fail miserably against that goal and let down Tasmanians yet again.

Under these circumstances, it makes no sense for the Liberals and their anti-development alliance partners, the Greens to oppose the construction of 2,000 new homes and block the UTAS Sandy Bay development.

Tasmanians need every new home we can build. The Liberal-Lambie Coalition needs to get out of the way of nearly 2,000 homes being built at the UTAS Sandy Bay campus to help to alleviate our housing problems.

Shane Broad MP
Shadow Minister for Housing