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PMAT Submission: Housing Land Supply Amendment Bill 2021

Submissions / 3 September 2021 / Housing, Submissions

While the Tasmanian Government is arguing that the crisis in availability of social and affordable housing can be addressed– at least in part – through the Housing Land Supply Amendment Bill 2021 it is important to look at the broader context of the problem. Some of the factors contributing to the shortage of affordable housing relate to policy settings controlled at the State level, but many others arise from long term national approaches to taxation, financial policy, investment and population growth.

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Kingborough Community Meeting on Housing

What Future Do You Want for Huntingfield and Kingborough?

News & Media / 26 July 2019 / Have Your Say, Housing

Facilitated by Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania the meeting called on the Tasmanian Parliament to reject the proposed Housing Supply Order for Huntingfield and for the government to proceed with any future rezoning proposals through the standard planning scheme amendment process.

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Simple 2D Ad Campaign to Outlive a Very Real, 3D Planning Policy Problem

News & Media / 9 February 2018 / Housing, Tasmania Planning Scheme

The Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania has launched a television and social media campaign that raises the issue of the Hodgman Government’s weakened planning laws and the reduced ability of the community to participate in planning decisions and challenge bad developments.

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West over Projection Bluff, Tasmania at sunrise

Tasmanian Leaders Conference – Disruptive Development

News & Media / 31 August 2017 / Aboriginal Cultural Heritage, Heritage Buildings and Landscapes, Housing, National Parks and Reserves, Tasmania Planning Scheme, Transparency and Democracy, Your Right to Have a Say

In August 2017 Sophie Underwood from Planning Matters Tasmania joined three other panelists at a Tasmanian Leaders Conference to talk about ‘disruptive development’ and how to engage rather than polarise community views.

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