UDIA Submissions

Given the broad remit of the Productivity Inquiry, we have focussed on the issues that most critically impact housing. These are: The only way…

The pause in NCC reform will give industry the time needed to incorporate the compliance changes brought in since 2022, and most importantly, absorb…

Taxes, statutory charges and levies add as much as 50% to the cost of new housing. In a housing affordability and supply crisis, this…

UDIA supports the objective of ensuring appropriate administrative accountability and participant protections under the Help to Buy scheme. We recognise that providing recourse to…

25 July 2025 Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) took part in an Economic Reform Roundtable regarding Kickstarting Growth, and have provided recommendations that…

Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) is keen to re-establish our momentum on finding time for us to coordinate and discuss DPN protocols so…

Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) supports the Federal, State, and Local Government in their policy development, and hopes that the standards underpinning policy…

Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) represents the entire range of housing development from institutional housing providers (at approximately 20% of the housing delivered),…

UDIA welcomes the opportunity to provide our recommendations on the Merger Notification Thresholds for ACCC to identify and safeguard against anti-competitive behaviour (the proposal).…

Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) has been working with members of the Seniors Living and Land Lease sector to further enhance its role…

UDIA National is a strong champion for improving the diversity of housing across the continuum from at-market to affordable, social and crisis housing. It…

Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) welcomed the opportunity to provide our comments on the Non-Resident CGT paper, “Strengthening the foreign resident capital gains…

Submission on the BTR MIT WHT initiative as proposed by your office, we have outlined below our supplementary statement for the Inquiry.UDIA National has…

Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) Submission on the Statement of Issues for the Stockland and Supalai proposed acquisition of 12 residential master-planned communities…

UDIA appreciates the opportunity to provide our comments on the consultation draft National Urban Policy (the Policy draft).UDIA National is a long standing champion…

UDIA National has been a long standing champion of levelling the playing field for BTR and lowering the MIT WHT threshold.The halving of MIT…

UDIAs comments on the Circular Economy Ministerial Advisory Group’s interim report (interim report). UDIA National actively supports Government’s efforts to find practical and effective…

UDIA is pleased to provide our comments on the proposed Nature Positive (Environment) Act (NPE Act) following the latest lockup held 27 March 2024.…

UDIA National strongly supports frameworks and policies that alleviate the immediate impacts of the skills shortage, builds the capacity of critical industries and boosts…

UDIA welcomes the opportunity to comment wholesale investor test for offers of securities (Section 708 of Chapter 6D of the Corporations Act 2001) and…

UDIA welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Help to Buy Scheme as we actively support Government’s efforts to find practical and effective pathways…

Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) actively supports Government’s efforts to find practical and effective pathways to balance our climate change ambitions and the…

UDIA welcomes the opportunity to provide our comments on the proposed Regional Planning Act including our summary of the main issues we see following…

The Development and Construction industry is keen to find a simple, straightforward approach to meeting climate change ambitions that also safeguards the Australian Government’s…

UDIA has provided a summary of the Infrastructure needed in each UDIA State and the overall infrastructure funding needed from Government to unlock housing.…

UDIA appreciates the difficult job Treasury has in marrying the political imperatives with the hard commercial realities, however, there will need to be material…

Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) comments on the proposed National Environmental Law Reforms (Environmental Reforms), under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act…

Urban Development Institute of Australia submission on the proposed National Environmental Law Reforms (Environmental Reforms), under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999…

Submission of Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) Amendments to the Housing Australia Investment Mandate Direction (Proposed Amendments) to establish the administration of the…

The NHHP is a critical piece of inter-government collaboration to ensure Australians can access affordable, safe and sustainable housing across the continuum. As the…