LGAQ welcomes steps to help address the national housing crisis and an increase in road funding but is disappointed the Federal Budget has failed to reveal an increase in local government funding.

Queensland’s councils have called on the State Government to open up a publicly-funded housing loan scheme to help more people own or build a home in regional and remote communities.

The peak body representing Queensland’s 77 councils has welcomed the move by the Queensland Government to investigate the impact of short-term rentals on the housing crisis.

Housing, roads and funding high on the agenda for councils and their communities at the 126th LGAQ Annual Conference.

Exorbitant deposit requirements imposed on Queenslanders seeking to buy a home in in rural and remote Queensland are stifling economic growth by locking prospective buyers out of the market.

A lack of housing options for future residents is jeopardising major economic opportunities to help rural and remote communities like Etheridge and Murweh Shire grow.

Queensland’s councils have put forward a series of immediate measures to tackle the statewide housing crisis, as they joined Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s emergency housing round table.

A desperate housing shortage is putting First Nations children at a disadvantage at school and setting back health care and life expectancy.

LGAQ Chief Executive Officer Alison Smith said councils have been working hard to help find and deliver solutions to the housing crisis.

Quadrupling social housing funding, extending the First Home Owners’ Grant and unlocking abandoned, unused and empty properties are ways to begin conquering Queensland’s housing crisis.

LGAQ, together with some of Qld’s biggest peak bodies, has reissued the call for the major parties to show they are serious about addressing the housing crisis, should they win the Federal Election.

Burke Shire Council is helping its community break the cycle with a unique partnership that’s making the seemingly impossible prospect of home ownership a reality.

LGAQ has welcomed the Federal Opposition’s commitment to establish a National Housing Supply and Affordability Council, as well as develop a National Housing and Homelessness Plan.

The housing crisis affecting the Whitsunday Region is the worst Acting Mayor Mike Brunker has seen in his lifetime.

The peak body representing Queensland councils is bitterly disappointed the Federal Government has rejected a united call for a National Housing Summit to explore solutions to the housing crisis.