Chris Minns on housing supply needs

NSw Premier Chris Minns talks about the government's plans for pre-approved apartment building designs

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00:00 Supply, or in this case a lack of supply, was the leading reason for the housing affordability

00:07 disaster in New South Wales and there's something needed to be done about it.

00:12 Supply is fundamentally being hampered by excessive delays in processing development

00:17 applications.

00:19 Currently local councils on average take 111 days to process a development application.

00:25 So that means that despite having the largest population, the largest expected increase

00:30 in population, the highest rents, the highest median house prices, we are last on the east

00:36 coast when it comes to housing completions.

00:39 Our departments, our councils, some state MPs are saying no too often when it comes

00:48 to new housing options for Sydney.

00:51 But every time they say no it means that another house will not be built for a young family,

00:56 a single person or a renter in our city.

01:00 That culture has to change.