Minister for Housing and Public Works and Minister for Youth The Honourable Sam O’Connor
Record Funds Boost Housing in Wide Bay Burnett
- The Crisafulli Government is delivering a place to call home for more Queenslanders, with more than 290 social homes in construction or under contract across the Wide Bay-Burnett region.
- New Pialba complex will deliver homes for Queenslanders at risk of homelessness.
- 2025-26 Budget locks in long-term pipeline of social and community housing construction with a $5.6 billion investment pipeline.
The Crisafulli Government is delivering more homes for Queenslanders in the Wide Bay Burnett, with construction to start this year on new temporary supported accommodation and hundreds more social homes already under construction.
Delivering a fresh start for housing in the region, a new complex in Pialba will deliver 26 support accommodation places for people experiencing, or at risk of homelessness.
The Crisafulli Government’s 2025-26 Budget delivers $8.1 billion to secure our housing foundations and ease Labor’s Housing Crisis with one new million homes, including 53,500 social and community homes by 2044.
As part of this commitment, a record $5.6 billion will be invested to deliver new social and community housing over the next four years.
For the first time, the Budget also locks in baseline funding of $500 million per year from 2029–30, creating a long-term pipeline of social and community homes for Queenslanders most in need.
It follows a decade of underinvestment in social and community housing by the former Labor Government, leading to more than 52,000 Queenslanders waiting on the social housing list.
Across the whole Wide Bay-Burnett, more than 290 social and community homes are in construction or under contract to be delivered, which includes:
- 157 homes in the Bundaberg region
- 93 homes in the Fraser Coast region
- 41 homes in the South Burnett region.
The Crisafulli Government’s Budget also locks in a 20 per cent uplift in support for specialist homelessness services across the Wide Bay–Burnett region and more than doubles funding for head leased properties to house our most vulnerable over the next four years.
Minister for Housing Sam O’Connor said social and community housing developments were critical to create stable and sustainable communities that support economic and social inclusion.
“The Crisafulli Government’s first Budget delivers $5.6 billion for social and community housing — the biggest investment Queensland has ever seen — and this Pialba development shows what that funding will deliver,” Minister O’Connor said.
“It means more accessible, secure homes for people with disability, and more Queenslanders having a place they can call home.
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