The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) is conducting a review of rent models for social and affordable housing in NSW. This review is one element of the NSW Government’s 10-year strategy for social housing, Future Directions for Social Housing in NSW (‘Future Directions’), released in January 2016.

Future Directions considers the system of housing assistance needs to be flexible to meet these multiple objectives so that people with different needs receive different types of assistance, and people whose needs change over time receive different levels of assistance over time. Current eligibility criteria and rental models for social housing are based on a ‘one size fits all’ approach which does not deliver this flexibility.