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More homes in the right places

Protecting Brisbane's lifestyle as it continues to grow.

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Hundreds of people are moving to our city every week, adding to housing supply pressures that are being exacerbated by labour shortages and construction costs.

To keep up with our growing population, the Queensland Government has set a target of 210,800 new homes by 2046. But it's not just about numbers.

How we live is also changing. More than half of all households are singles or couples, yet less than a third of our homes have one or two bedroom options.

210,800

New homes needed by 2046

50%+

Households are singles or couples

<33%

Current housing with 1-2 bedrooms

Growing

Demand for multigenerational living

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Housing supply tracker

Data updated monthly. Last updated May 2026.

72,029

Additional homes created since 2016

48,817

Approved homes through Council since January 2021*

* This figure is a combination of dwellings and lots approved by Council, the majority of which relate to apartments and townhouses. Most free-standing homes are approved through private certification rather than through Council's development assessment process.

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Tall over sprawl

Our anti-sprawl approach is about focusing more homes in the right places.

By targeting growth where major transport hubs and shopping precincts already exist, we can encourage more homes where people need them most — protecting the leafy streets, bushland and neighbourhoods that define Brisbane.

See where change is coming

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Our key initiatives

Programs working together to deliver more homes, faster, in the right places.

Brisbane's Sustainable Growth Strategy is our housing and homelessness strategy. It outlines our initiatives to address the key challenges for our growing city:

  • keeping Brisbane affordable 
  • planning for housing in areas that maximises city-shaping infrastructure
  • delivering infrastructure to meet future population growth
  • building new, well-designed housing that meets the needs of current and future communities, stage-of-life changes and people with specific needs
  • responding to housing needs during and after major events such as pandemics or floods
  • supporting our economy and enhancing our lifestyle.

Learn more about the strategy and key priorities.

The Brisbane Housing Supply Action Plan includes a series of actions to address housing supply challenges and to help deliver more homes, sooner.

Current actions focus on three priority themes.

Guiding sustainable growth

  • Enabling more growth in inner city urban renewal precincts.
  • Supporting suburban renewal in well-serviced precincts close to public transport.
  • Facilitating well designed homes through guides and incentives.

New actions to incentivise housing supply

  • Short-term infrastructure charges reductions for market-led housing and ongoing waiver of infrastructure charges for social housing.
  • Fast-tracking development assessment by establishing a Special Assessment Unit.
  • Growing up not out by updating allowable heights and other settings in Principal and Major Centres, which have good access to transport and services.
  • Reducing the cost to build new housing by reviewing car parking requirements in the inner city and surrounding suburbs, and by updating design requirements for development in the Low-medium density residential zone.

Working with other levels of government

  • Continuing to work with the Queensland Government when considering new precinct plans.
  • Supporting the Queensland Government on planning reform, including accelerated planning scheme amendment processes, State-delivered infrastructure and construction industry support.

Learn more about the action plan.