University of Sydney: Local Housing Strategy for Rhodes East

This urban planning report focuses on developing a local housing strategy for Rhodes East, Sydney, addressing the city's significant housing challenges. The report begins with an executive summary highlighting the rising population and the need for diverse housing options. It then provides background information on the local government of Rhodes East, including demographic data and housing tenure. The report reviews the existing housing strategy, conducts a housing needs and market analysis, and examines demographic and affordability indicators. It explores demand and supply trends, outlining objectives and planning strategies. The report also details council-wide strategies and implementation plans for the local housing strategy. The analysis reveals the need for affordable housing, particularly at the outskirts of Sydney, to accommodate the growing population. Strategies are proposed to combat declining housing ownership and youth unemployment, with a focus on the social impact of affordable housing. The report concludes with a summary of its findings and recommendations for effective implementation, emphasizing the importance of sustainable and diverse housing options for the future.

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Local Housing Planning – Sydney
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Executive summary:
Sydney faces a huge housing challenge during present date. As the southern half of the globe,
and availability of jobs attracts a lot of people to Sydney. Figures demonstrate that Sydney's
population will develop by around 1.1 million individuals by 2031 and will require a scope of
housing choices that varies essentially from the present accommodation stock. This urban
planning report was aimed to provide a local housing planning for Sydney (Rhodes East)
under the aforementioned constrained where the demand of the housing is expected to rise in
the coming days, whereas supply is constrained. The report has provided details regarding the
present housing strategies as well as showcase the future prospects for the new housing
strategies with their plan for implementation. From the analysis of the Local Housing
Strategy it has be found that Sydney require affordable housing at its outskirts in order to
accommodate the expected rise in the populace. In addition to this, to control the fall in the
housing ownership and youth joblessness has direct impact on the housing sector of Sydney.
The report has provided strategies to tackle with the same and provide future to the domestic
economy. report additionally has founded , affordable housing will have social impact and it
need to be judged by the council so as to enhance the sustainability of the same and keep an
account of the loss of low cost houses.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................3
Background information of local government:..........................................................................4
Vision and mission statement:...................................................................................................4
Review of the existing housing strategy:...................................................................................5
Housing needs & market analysis:.............................................................................................6
Demographic indicators:........................................................................................................6
Housing tenure:......................................................................................................................8
Affordability indicators:.........................................................................................................9
Demand and supply trends:..................................................................................................11
Summary:.............................................................................................................................13
Housing strategy:.....................................................................................................................13
Objectives:............................................................................................................................13
Planning strategy:.................................................................................................................14
Council wide strategy:..........................................................................................................15
Implementation of the Local Housing Strategy:......................................................................16
Conclusion:..............................................................................................................................16
Reference:................................................................................................................................17

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Introduction:
Sydney faces a huge housing challenge during present date. As the southern half of the globe,
and availability of jobs attracts a lot of people to Sydney. Thus, during present date on of the
main problem of the state is to provide affordable housing. Interest for having dwelling unit
in Sydney is high and anticipated that would keep on rising with the anticipated development
in populace; in the meantime, business and private improvements go after land, additionally
expanding housing. Particularly in parts of the city which offer great access to business,
transport, shops and benefits, or exceedingly esteemed civilities, for example, water
perspectives or nearness to open space, family units who have moderate or low salaries battle
to discover affordable housing in the vicinity. Where such family units pay in excess of 30
percent of gross pay on lease or home loan instalments, they are thought to be in "lodging
pressure".
Figures demonstrate that Sydney's population will develop by around 1.1 million
individuals by 2031 and will require a scope of housing choices that varies essentially from
the present accommodation stock (Miller et al. 2015). With the populace developing to 5.3
million by 2031 and normal family sizes foreseen to tumble from 2.65 to 2.36 individuals,
Sydney will have an aggregate of 2.2 million homes (Gordon et al. 2015). Two subjects that
rose up out of Community Forums held in 2004 were obliging the development of the urban
territory to ensure the regular habitat and more quick witted urban arranging and
improvement (Harding and Blokland 2014). The Housing Strategy concentrates improvement
to reinforce focuses, towns and neighbourhoods cantered around open transport.
This urban planning report is aimed to provide a local housing planning for Sydney
(Rhodes East) under the aforementioned constrained where the demand of the housing is
expected to rise in the coming days, whereas supply is constrained. The report will provide
details regarding the present housing strategies as well as showcase the future prospects for

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the new housing strategies with their plan for implementation. To conclude, the report will
provide summarized overview of its findings and demonstrate the effective implementation
program for the same.
Background information of local government:
Rhodes East presently has a little populace (733 individuals as per census of 2011)
and like middle ring rural areas, its populace is maturing (Family & Community service
2018). As per the census report of 2011, approximately 20 percent of inhabitants were
matured 65 or over, contrasted with under 15 percent over the LGA
(Cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au. 2018). The family unit blend nearly mirrors that of the more
extensive LGA and 59 percent of families contained a couple or a couple with youngsters.
75% of dwelling in Rhodes East are segregated homes, with the rest of semi-detached or
townhouse homes (Apo.org.au. 2018). There are no apartments or no units of high-end
houses or lofts in Rhodes East. Occupants of Rhodes East are somewhat more probable than
whatever remains of the LGA to claim their home either by and mortgage or with a home
loan. Nonetheless, the region indicates eminently higher frequencies of family stress than
whatever is left of the LGA. 37% of families with livelihoods in the lower to moderate
income have the moderate amount of stress in Rhodes East, contrasted with 27% in other
parts of the LGA (Planning.nsw.gov.au. 2018). As per the Land and Housing Corporation,
there are right now just six social lodging properties.
Vision and mission statement:
Vision statement:
Vision of the scheme is to enhance the number and percentage of the affordable
housing in central Sydney allowing better growth and labour source to the Sydney. In
addition to this, it is expected to achieve 10,500 affordable rental house mark by 2030, within
the LGA for better future prospect.

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Mission statement:
Provide affordable housing as the basic infrastructural requirement to help sustainable
employment and growth as well as efficient and, profitable business in the City of
Sydney LGA.
Guarantee there are open doors for low to medium pay workers who work in Central
Sydney to live in the outskirt of Central Sydney.
Guarantee that as development happens in Central Sydney, reasonable housing is
given to accommodate the expanded interest for affordable housing coming through a
rise in the population who have low to moderate income.
Keep up a socially assorted residential population that illustrative of all salary
bunches in the City of Sydney.
Encourage opportunities to government and housing service providers to supply and
work on reasonable housing within the LGA.
Review of the existing housing strategy:
The City of Canada Bay is leading the pack in the supply of affordable housing,
through improvement of its current portfolio and the planning of a method of reasoning for
inclusionary zoning to produce essential affordable houses. In its Affordable Housing Policy,
Council sets out its pledge to "empowering moderate lodging in the City of Canada Bay to
keep up an assorted, lively and solid network and to lighten housing pressure experienced by
a few people and families in the private rental market" (Planning.nsw.gov.au. 2018). In their
strategy, the Council likewise focuses on recognizing reasonable destinations for affordable
housing. Additionally, Council has worked broadly through the Future Cities Collaborative
with David Paul Rosen and Associates, including the verbalization of a point by point display
for evaluating venture attainability under inclusionary zoning situations. Council commits the
examination for the inclusionary zoning of the affordable housing allowing them to take

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control of the venture (Family & Community services 2018). Particularly for the Rhodes East
area, Council has focused on conveying 5 percent affordable housing. Council, moreover,
observes Rhodes East as a potential model for future urban improvement extends inside the
LGA. Affordable housing created through arranging components at Rhodes East would add
to Council's current little arrangement of affordable housing, produced through assets raised
under Voluntary Planning Agreements with sponsorships under the National Rental
Affordability Scheme (NRAS) (Chappell and Campbell 2018). These residences are utilized
to give reasonable rental lodging to low and moderate salaried family units, focusing on key
specialists inside the LGA or adjacent zones. Under Council's Affordable Housing Policy,
qualified family units must incorporate no less than one part in lasting business, and must nor
live in sponsored lodging nor owning property and resources which could be utilized towards
lodging of another couple of families. In addition to this, preference is given to family units
working in determined ventures including health care, child care, crisis administrations
sector, teaching, and public transport, retail and to other people who are oriented with other
important jobs (Favilukis et al. 2017).
Housing needs & market analysis:
Demographic indicators:
Rhodes East is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, which is located
16 kilometres west to the Sydney central district. It has small amount of population and one
third of the population are middle aged peoples and 20% of the total population of the place
is older than 65 years or higher; Contrary to this only 15% of the population across other
LGA is as less as 15% (Gurran and Phibbs 2017). As per the same source, in Rhodes East
almost 59% of the household in the LGAs are couple with a children or a couple. Considering
the housing standards it can be seen that 75% of the population in Rhodes East are dwelling
in the detached homes and the rest utilise either townhouse dwellings or semi-detached

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housing for living (Yates 2016). Compared to LGA, mass population of the Rhodes East
prefer to have their own house either on mortgage or with outright showcasing the larger
scope and demand of the new housing program. Under poor housing condition, population of
Rhodes East faces large amount of household stress and with 37% household stress
percentage, Rhodes East stands out from the crowd of other parts in LGA (Austin et al.
2014). As per the expectation by 2031, there will be rise in population in the Rhodes East by
40% and it would place substantial contribution to the accommodation growth in Sydney
(Van et al. 2015).
Figure 1: Age distribution in Rhodes East
Source: (Planning.nsw.gov.au. 2018)
As per the population census of 2011 shown in figure 1, two third of the population
are white collar workers and mix of students who are ageing from 18 years to 34 years. One
out of every five person in this area lives alone and only 16% population is couple and
children.

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Figure 2: Income distribution in Rhodes East
Source: (Planning.nsw.gov.au. 2018)
As per the figure 2, income in the Rhodes East is high, however income inequality is
higher, reducing the median income level of the place. Considering the proximity to
transport, it is expected that in near future Rhodes East will have large number of commuters.
as of now, there is certain amount of gap within the population because income inequality is
higher and the key worker in the region is absent and the present figures of doctors, teachers,
health care service providers and other essential persons are absent allowing the Rhodes East
to expand in future with the help of enhancing demand scenario (Planning.nsw.gov.au. 2018).
Housing tenure:
Considering the present situation of living in Rhodes East, it can be seen that most of
the houses are either drenched or semi-drenched in nature depicting debacle in the living
standard of the area. Contrary to this Rhodes West have exclusive modern unit of living
whose median sales price during 2016 was as high as $850,000 showcasing the good
dwelling condition in that area. Apart from this, it can be seen that per unit median rent for
the Rhodes West is as high as $630 and the bellow illustration depicts the price range of the
apartment in the Rhodes area (Favilukis et al. 2017):

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Figure 3: Rhodes West dwelling pricing range for purchase and rent
Source: (Family & Community services 2018)
Above table further entails that, though the Rhodes West has good amount of modern
housing available, rate of rent is moderate. Contrary to this, purchasing price is higher in the
area that showcase only 32% of the population owns a house in this area. Contrary to this,
people from Rhodes East showcase higher affinity to own a house either in mortgage or in
outrights. This makes the housing program essential for the Rhodes East population as well
as for the Rhodes west, which will enable the population of both place to have their own
affordable housing.
Affordability indicators:
Gross household income:
Gross household income is one of the main indicators that defines the affordability of
the houses and this report has utilised the Sydney Statistical Division (SSD) report of
household income to determine the gross income status of the Rhodes East (Tretter 2015). As
per the same source, during 2015 to 2016, income earner who has annual earning lower than
$40,600 will come under the very ‘very low income group’ and people having annual income
ranging from $40,600 to $64,900 will be considered under the ‘low income group’ and the
people with income higher than $64,900 and lower income than $97,400 will be considered
as the ‘moderate income earner’; rest is ‘high income earner’ (Mallach 2017). As per the
present data from the SSD, Canada Bay has higher income than that of Sydney and the when
it comes to the median household income, then it is as high as $95,000 compared to the
median income of $80,000 of Sydney. Inferring from same data, it can be seen that most of

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the population in Rhodes East has moderate income with differentiated jobs (Saberi et al.
2017).
Salaries and wages:
Apart from the Gross household income, salaries and wages are essential parameters
that define the eligibility for the affordable housing strategy. Though there is limited number
of teachers, law enforcement officer and other necessary providers, yet the income is
moderate allowing them eligible for the affordable housing program (Pham 2017). As per the
latest survey Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), it can be seen that sales assistance earn
$38,012 annually before taxation and an police officer earns $98,436 on an average annually
before taxation making them lowest and highest income earner respectively in the Rhodes
East (Birrell and McCloskey 2016). According to the same source, primary school teacher,
emergency service worker and registered nurse earn $ 66,508, $79,040 and $63,440
respectively making them low to moderate income earner in the selected region.
Though there is moderate amount of income, yet it can be seen that younger people of
the area prefers to get employed for the shorter period of service and earn significantly lower
than the aforementioned averages. As per the ABS data, a 24 years old worker employed in
any of the above mentioned jobs earn 40% lower than average income if employed for the
short service (Gurran et al. 2018). Apart from this, it can be seen that, if the greater view of
the Rhodes for both the East and West is considered, then it can be seen that out of five
population, only one people earn moderate income that makes it harder to afford any house.
Thus, it depicts that there is certain amount of affordability gap in case of the Rhodes East.

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Figure 4: Affordable weekly rent depending upon income band
Source: (Family & Community services 2018)
Figure 4, depicts the required from the affordable housing program in the Rhodes
East. As per the figure, most of the person presently fails to afford the rent in the Rhodes East
area and considering the case of the purchasing below figure depicts that it is quite
impossible under present market price framework.
Figure 5: Income band wise distribution of the renters and purchaser
Source: (Family & Community services 2018)
As per the figure 5, it can be seen that most of the houses are not affordable by the
large section of the population of the selected region. People with moderate income prefer to
have rented house, whereas no one has the potential to purchase house at the present pricing
situation (Family & Community services 2018).
These data showcase that the redevelopment of the Rhodes East will provide
substantial amount of opportunity to enhance the potentiality of the affordable housing and
allowing through effective planning system, standard place for living is possible to make.
Demand and supply trends:
From the above discussion it can be seen that, there is wide amount of affordability
gap of the houses under present market situation. In addition to this, under the moderate