The State Government’s efforts to address the housing crisis have been recognised by a leading national industry body, with South Australia ranked number one in HIA’s Housing Policy Scoreboard.

The Housing Industry Association (HIA) Scoreboard benchmarks each state and territory according to ten critical housing supply policies and mechanisms that are advantageous to the promotion of housing supply, with SA topping the nation.

This report recognised the Premier’s Housing Roadmap which features more than 100 initiatives to help the industry build more homes faster.

In the months since the Housing Roadmap was unveiled, the State Government has already implemented dozens of initiatives such as introducing a nation first infrastructure scheme, created a builders panel for small government led projects, streamlined planning efficiencies to cut assessment timeframes and already laid 2000 metres of new water mains as part of the record $1.5 billion expansion to the water and sewer network.

This latest accolade follows similar results with SA leading the nation in the last two HIA Housing Scorecards, while the Property Council of Australia recognised confidence in our property sector is the highest in the country.

It comes after the Business Council of Australia described South Australia as the best place to do business and ranked SA’s planning system the best in the nation.