NSW govt ‘need to do more’ to meet housing targets’: NSW Premier

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns says while his government is going to “do everything it can” to remove barriers to build more housing, they “need to do more” to meet targets. In January, Minns said the state will not meet its housing target of 75,000 new homes in 2024, which is part of a broader plan to build 1.2 million new homes across Australia over the next five years. “The New South Wales government is going to do everything it can to remove barriers so that we can lift the amount of houses that will be built, so that young people can have a future in a city like Sydney,” Mr Minns told Sky News Australia. “We want to get to the average of 70,000 a year so that we can meet the federal government’s target. “Last year, NSW produced 48,000 dwellings … on a per capita basis, we’re last in Australia, notwithstanding the fact that we’ve got the most pressing and most difficult housing challenges. “We need to do more.”