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Affordable Housing and Transport Seminar Greg Cash Director Market Innovation and Partnerships. What can planning and transport do for us?. What do we want Perth to do for us? What is the role of housing and how does it relate to transport?
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Affordable Housing and Transport SeminarGreg Cash Director Market Innovation and Partnerships
What can planning and transport do for us? What do we want Perth to do for us? What is the role of housing and how does it relate to transport? What are Perth’s major housing and transport challenges? How can housing and transport be used to deliver good outcomes?
What do we want Perth to do for us? The opportunity for people to achieve a high quality of life. Access to: • Community • Job markets • Culture and recreation • Health • Education
What is the role of housing in Perth? • Community development • Growing diversity using a range of housing options within suburbs • Improving access by supplying a range of housing options across suburbs • Social and economic development • Markets grow when housing connects residents to jobs • Diverse communities will support local self-sufficiency
How are housing and transport related? • Diversity • Fora range of income groups to secure housing (affordability) • A range of viable alternative housing options for households to match their needs (choice) • Access • To services, amenity and community (convenience) • Efficient growth • Growing the population in the right parts of the city (proximity)
How are housing and transport related? 2013 median dwelling prices “Properties within a five- to ten-minute walk to a transit station already sell for 20 to 25 per cent more than comparable properties farther away.” - Centre for Transit Oriented Development Source: RP Data
How can housing affordability and transport be used to help improve outcomes? Perth’s housing development can improve demand catchments: % of residents using alternative transport • Housing diversity can increase access to transport services within locations • Development of housing diversity can help spread transport services across locations Source: Census 2011
How can housing affordability and transport be used to help improve outcomes? Cockburn Central Activity Centre – infrastructure efficiency • Living Space Cockburn Central: • Transit oriented to promote rail usage • Housing choices for key workers • First WA connection to the NBN
How can housing affordability and transport be used to help improve outcomes? Stella Orion – innovative housing choices • Unitised construction, completed in under 10 months • Apartment choices delivered into Success • 1 kilometre from Cockburn Central Train Station