Submission: Inner West Council’s Fairer Future Plan

07/07/2025

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The Tenants' Union contributed to the recent Inner West Council consultation on their housing plan – the Fairer Future Plan.

We recommended:

  1. We support the Council's plan to increase the provision of Affordable Housing and encourage Affordable Housing on faith based land.
  2. We support the requirement that all Affordable Housing be held in perpetuity.
  3. Council to encourage all tiers of Community Housing providers to manage Affordable Housing but particularly encourage new cooperatives and Aboriginal Community Housing providers
  4. Council consider grants programs for distribution of developer contributions that deliver genuinely affordable, stable housing.
  5. Council introduce a requirement for rent setting in all Affordable Housing on an income-based rent model with a secondary limit to 80% of market rent.
  6. Council to adopt a principle that all current public housing on State and Council owned land is maintained and increased.