NSW Planning Minister Paul Scully speaks on state’s role in hitting national housing target

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Amid concern that the desperately needed turnaround in the housing sector is yet to start, Planning Minister Paul Scully talked down the importance of a goal to build 75,000 new homes in the state each year.

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00:00 Everything that we're doing in planning at the moment is geared towards meeting the Housing

00:04 Accord targets over the five years of that agreement and working on a pipeline going

00:11 forward.

00:12 Some of the published forecasts that are available at the moment predate the announcement of

00:20 the reforms that we're doing to plan.

00:22 So you would have seen when we made those announcements there was a series of numbers

00:25 and forecasts based on those agreements.

00:26 Now that's for the period of record and then there's the work that will be done into the

00:31 future about making sure that that continues to deliver.

00:35 Those forecasts will be updated periodically but they haven't been updated to reflect because

00:39 there was a timing mismatch.

00:40 They were done before the reforms that we announced last time.

00:44 [End of Audio] Duration: 5 minutes and 30 seconds

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