Queensland Audit Office highlights lack of modelling to address rising social housing demand

 Queensland is failing to properly monitor its social housing register or build enough new social homes and is not modelling future housing demand, a new report has found.

The Queensland Audit Office (QAO) conducted an examination of the Housing Department to determine whether social housing is being managed effectively.

Its report, published today, found the department was not conducting any modelling to forecast what the register will look like in the next three years.

There are around 31,000 households on the social housing register, an increase of 78 per cent since 2018.

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