Code Amendment ID: 10047 Affordable Housing Overlay

The State Planning Commission is proposing to expand the Affordable Housing Overlay to cover more parts of South Australia, and to review policies to better facilitate the delivery of affordable housing.

Subject to investigations, the Code Amendment seeks to:

• expand application of the Affordable Housing Overlay to apply to neighbourhood-type (i.e. ‘residential’) zones and activity centre zones

• review the threshold for the application of affordable housing policy, to a level where it will be financially viable to incorporate affordable housing (and not otherwise avoided)

• revise current affordable housing incentive policy to encourage increased uptake of affordable housing.

The proposal seeks to expand application of the Affordable Housing Overlay generally within Greater Adelaide but has the capacity to expand application across regional areas and review affordable housing policy applying to the whole of South Australia.

The Code Amendment responds to recommendations of the Expert Panel for the Planning System Implementation Review, and is an initiative identified in the South Australian Government’s Housing Roadmap.