Affordable Housing: What Role for Local Government?(Report‪)‬

1. INTRODUCTION This article develops a local government practitioner perspective on the issue of affordable housing as it relates to the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales. It seeks to develop a definition of affordable housing, provide some national context and a Northern Rivers affordable housing perspective. It further comments on Local Environmental Plans as possibly mandating affordable housing as a development consent condition, providing a local perspective on the Clarence Valley Affordable Housing Strategy and the priority areas under the Clarence Valley Strategy and some of the challenges the strategy presents.