Inquiry into housing policy and disaster: better coordinating actors, responses and data

This report urges governments to rethink housing policy - starting with local leadership, flexible planning, and long-term resilience strategies. Climate-related disasters are set to increase. Governments at all levels need to better coordinate housing policies and practices to reduce the impact of disasters on households.

A central finding of the report is that local government is uniquely positioned to lead disaster resilience efforts but is currently under-resourced, under-supported, and under-recognised in national disaster frameworks. This report further looked at:

• improving how government groups work together to strengthen housing policy and planning for disasters;
• the housing disaster recovery approaches that best help prevent future disaster;
• improving how agencies use data in housing supply processes to support disaster-ready housing and communities.