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LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY - Signing ePetition - Save Genuinely Affordable Housing from New Planning Rule Exploitation

To sign the ePetition, confirm you are a resident of New South Wales and enter your title, first name and last name. Once you click ‘submit’ you will have signed the ePetition and will be re-directed to the Legislative Assembly’s ‘ePetitions open for signature’ page

Save Genuinely Affordable Housing from New Planning Rule Exploitation

To the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly, The In-Fill Affordable Housing Bonus (AHB) is being exploited by developers to build luxury apartments while failing to deliver genuinely affordable housing. Across Sydney—including Darlinghurst, Marrickville, North Sydney, Paddington and Potts Point—modest studio or one-bedroom apartments are being demolished, displacing lower-income renters. Essential workers, young people, and vulnerable residents are pushed out of their communities due to the destruction of diverse housing. The AHB grants 30% additional height and floor space but requires only 15% affordable housing at a 20% rental discount for 15 years. The financial value of the extra density greatly exceeds the value of discounted rent. Shelter NSW states this temporarily 20% discounted rent remains far above suburb averages while unattainable for households meeting affordable housing income criteria. Perversely, development is concentrated in high-value areas where luxury apartments provide the highest returns. The AHB is simultaneously undermining local amenity, heritage and infrastructure through unanticipated pressure on constrained capacity. The petitioners ask the Legislative Assembly to call on the Government to: • Prohibit AHB where it results in net loss of low-cost housing • Ensure new affordable housing is genuinely affordable—capped at 30% of household income, retained in perpetuity • Introduce location-based limits to the $75 million SSD threshold • Assess infrastructure, amenity and heritage impacts prior to granting density • Establish a Parliamentary Inquiry to publicly evaluate the AHB's operation We urge the Legislative Assembly to review the AHB before Sydney becomes a city only the wealthy can afford.

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