Government infrastructure investment

• HIA advocates the provision of infrastructure to meet community needs and expectations.
• Infrastructure provision should be planned, developed, and implemented in a coordinated manner by all levels of government, state, regional and local.
• Infrastructure provision and funding must have a minimal impact on affordability of new housing.
• As beneficiaries of the provision of new infrastructure the whole community should share the cost of that benefit, by way of any or a combination of the following mechanisms:
  o Government borrowings
  o Public subscribed infrastructure bonds
  o Public private partnerships that demonstrate clear public interest
  o General rate levy across the whole community
• Governments should also:
  o invest in new technology driven infrastructure and
  o lead the way by removing institutional barriers to infrastructure development.