Policy Priorities
UDIA WA’s Policy Priorities 2026: Deliver the Homes We Need, Faster outlines the reforms and initiatives we believe will have the greatest impact on increasing housing supply and supporting thriving, connected communities across Western Australia.
Our advocacy agenda focuses on four key priorities:
- Enabling investment – Securing and leveraging State and Commonwealth funding, improving housing-related tax settings and supporting investment mechanisms that facilitate housing delivery across the housing continuum.
- Infrastructure – Strengthening infrastructure planning, funding and delivery certainty to unlock housing opportunities and ensure critical infrastructure is provided at the right time to support growth.
- Delivery capacity – Addressing labour, productivity and construction capacity constraints while supporting innovation and new housing opportunities that can contribute to a sustainable supply pipeline.
- Approvals reform – Improving planning and environmental approval processes, reducing unnecessary delays and ensuring regulatory systems support efficient housing delivery while maintaining appropriate environmental and community outcomes.
Underlying these priorities is a strong commitment to policy settings that are planning-led, evidence-based and focused on practical delivery outcomes. We also advocate for an approach that recognises market conditions and commercial realities, supports timely and accountable decision-making, plans infrastructure ahead of demand, engages communities constructively in shaping future growth, and avoids measures that unnecessarily constrain housing supply, affordability or choice.
We believe these principles provide a framework by which reforms should be considered and that meaningful progress requires collaboration between government, industry and the broader community to ensure policy commitments translate into homes on the ground.
This document is supporting our ongoing advocacy and engagement with the State Government.
Pre-Budget Submission
Each year, UDIA WA puts together a set of recommendations for how the State Government should allocate funds in the upcoming State Budget.
We have outlined well researched and evidence-based investment recommendations across three key areas:
- Making it easier to create the homes we need
- Helping to keep the cost of homes down
- Planning for our housing needs now, and for our future
Some of UDIA WA’s key ‘asks’ include:
- Additional funding for Water Corporation for capital works to support residential development
- Extending and expanding the Infrastructure Development Fund
- Creating a facility for low interest mezzanine finance loans and underwriting of stock to boost medium and higher density project viability
- Funding to scope and progress the development of an online platform for WA’s planning & development system
- Building on the initial investment in the $400m Housing Enabling Infrastructure Fund
These key asks and several more are clearly articulated, including the estimated funding required for each ‘ask’, in our Pre Budget Submission.
UDIA WA was encouraged by the Cook Government’s housing policy before and during the State Election campaign that was translated into commitments in the last State Budget. We are now looking to the 2026-27 State Budget to prioritise further investments that will continue to meaningfully accelerate housing choice and supply.
2026-27 Pre-Budget Submission
DownloadPolicy Positions
As the community creators, the development industry is integral to the future development of the places that we all live, work and play in. Our capacity to deliver those places is being constrained by outside elements that must be addressed if we are going to keep a lid on housing affordability. We want Perth to remain one of the most affordable capital cities in Australia and we also want to ensure that property remains a strong investment option.
Immediate issues including dire skills and labour shortages need to be addressed, as well as longer term challenges such as further streamlining regulatory processes and reforming outdated taxation regimes.
We also need to work together and bring the community along for the journey toward Perth becoming a more compact and connected city. Without a shared understanding and commitment to that end goal, resistance to future development will continue.
UDIA WA’s policy positions are an articulation of where we stand on key matters of relevance in supporting our members and the broader industry in working towards a vision of ‘diverse living options in thriving, connected communities’. They guide and underpin our advocacy and stakeholder engagement activities.
2025 State Election Commitments
In mid-2024, in advance of the 2025 WA State Election, UDIA WA prepared a comprehensive State Election Platform and Campaign outlining priorities for the next State Government to continue to leverage industry to deliver the homes we need, faster.
Our specific recommendations were focused on actions required in 2025, to support immediate housing supply and to set WA up for a more sustainable forward pipeline.
When campaigning for the 2025 WA State Election was in full swing, UDIA WA tracked the major party’s commitments relating to delivering the homes we need, faster, and shared our responses to these on behalf of our members. We welcomed several key commitments aligned with our State Election Campaign.
Now, with the re-election of the Cook Government, we are advocating for funding allocations in the State Budget to deliver on the Labor election commitments that we support, as well as towards our other key priorities.
Refer to our Pre-Budget Submission 2026-27.
For more information, view the commitments made by each of the major parties.
Deliver the homes we need, faster
DownloadSubmissions and Reports
UDIA makes submissions on relevant policy and legislation on behalf of industry.
UDIA WA Response to Landgate – Consent Requirements for Easements and Restrictive Covenants (PDF)
Review of fees and charges under Part 4 of the Environmental Protection Act 1986 (PDF)
