NSW’s housing delivery authority creates potential pipeline of 150k homes

According to NSW Labor, the Housing Delivery Authority (HDA) has created a pipeline of 150,000 potential new homes in 18 months, from a total of 484 proposals.

If built, the projects could create more than 134,000 homes in Greater Sydney and close to 16,400 homes in regional NSW, including affordable housing.

This would clear a backlog of expressions of interest (EOIs) in the HDA pathway and allow the government to meet its commitment to have EOIs considered within 60 days.

To date, fourteen HDA projects have been approved, unlocking more than 2,500 homes, and a further 74 development applications have been lodged, representing around 26,000 potential new homes.

Since its launch in December 2024, the HDA has evaluated more than 1,100 expressions of interest from landowners and developers, identifying proposals for homes in well-located areas that can be assessed and constructed quickly.

The HDA reduced standard development timelines, as they require proponents to lodge their state significant applications within nine months of the Secretary’s Environmental Assessment Requirements (SEARs) being issued.

The HDA is now a permanent part of planning system reforms, following legislation passed by Parliament last year.

Following the reforms, assessment times have been dropped by close to a third, and housing supply has increased by 20 per cent from 2023, with close to 80,000 homes currently under construction.

NSW Planning and Public Spaces Minister, Paul Scully, said that as a result of the HDA, families, young people and downsizers would be able to find a home sooner.

“I look forward to seeing these HDA projects progress through the planning system to then become the homes NSW needs,” he said.

“The initiative has far exceeded expectations, and each of the homes currently in the pipeline demonstrates why we made it a permanent planning pathway.”