Build the Olympic Games Village now

We all know we will have the need for a games village and it will come in 10 years’ time, so why, when faced with the greatest crisis in accommodation our community has seen, would we not build it now?

The underlying theory here is that we could build the games village and all its amenities to provide urgent social and affordable housing solutions in a short period of time. Working with not-for-profit and commercial enterprises a model could be put in place to house those with emergency needs through to those that just simply can’t find a rental. The support to each category could vary and the ‘village’ would be a place to enable each group to move ‘up’ a category and eventually out into the general market as the crisis is eased and resolved over the medium and long term. As the balance of the solutions are executed, general supply will increase and can be SOLVED within 10 years creating a balanced market.

The games village could then be refurbished ready for the 2032 Olympic Games’ needs and on completion be returned to the market as general housing stock or remain as long-term community housing - or both.

There are multiple parcels of public and private land on the Sunshine Coast in key locations that would suit not only the delivery of the games village but essentially a parallel model while the crisis is eased in other locations. A very specific, Sunshine Coast version of Build to Rent.

How it helps:

Under this model, we believe 2,000 additional dwellings could be delivered over the next 2-3 years!

The challenges faced:

The government only sees this as something for the Olympics and a legacy after the fact and have danced around the questions we’ve thrown at them around bring forward the date. 

Without a focus on housing our community, the Games have the potential to leave a legacy of unaffordable housing, resulting in far reaching social issues and the prospect of a generation who will never achieve home ownership, and our most vulnerable at a greater risk of homelessness as per the report by Property Council Of Australia ‘A Home for Every Queenslander - August 2022 Edition’

What needs to be done:

We have a model for this to be executed very quickly and encourage all levels of government to meet with us so we can help them execute the plan and model.