AMPLIFY Home Truths

Holding governments accountable for the gap between housing promises and reality — and showing where the community is demanding more.

February 2026 edition

PROMISES VS REALITY

Australia's housing crisis has become a crisis of confidence. AMPLIFY Home Truths research reveals that even where governments are delivering more homes, public trust is collapsing at an alarming rate.

Across the country, Australians are making painful trade-offs just to keep a roof over their heads — and faith in government to fix it is fading fast. The data is clear: Australia needs more homes, and Australians need belief the system is working for them. Incremental reform is no longer enough.

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About AMPLIFY Home Truths

We don't think there's enough accountability on Australia's housing targets — so we created AMPLIFY Home Truths. By ranking both housing delivery and community confidence together, we hold governments accountable not just for the homes they build, but for the trust they build along the way.

Drawing on a nationally representative survey of more than 4,000 Australians alongside each jurisdiction's progress on their National Housing Accord targets, every state and territory receives an index score.

Australian Capital Territory

AMPLIFY Home Truths Index:

56.1%

Housing delivery measure

On track to build 21,138 of 21,584 homes needed

97.9%

+1.5 since Oct '25

COMMUNITY CONFIDENCE measure

0.379%

-8.2 since Oct '25

Negative

Neutral

Positive

Negative

Positive

South Australia

AMPLIFY Home Truths Index:

51.7%

Housing delivery measure

On track to build 61,668 of 81,198 homes needed

75.9%

+2.1 since Oct '25

COMMUNITY CONFIDENCE measure

0.360%

-8.3 since Oct '25

Negative

Neutral

Positive

Negative

Positive

Western Australia

AMPLIFY Home Truths Index:

48.7%

Housing delivery measure

On track to build 91,341 of 121,288 homes needed

85.5%

-0.7 since Oct '25

COMMUNITY CONFIDENCE measure

0.289%

-4.2 since Oct '25

Negative

Neutral

Positive

Negative

Positive

Victoria

AMPLIFY Home Truths Index:

48.3%

Housing delivery measure

On track to build 276,847 of 315,033 homes needed

87.9%

-2.2 since Oct '25

COMMUNITY CONFIDENCE measure

0.279%

-5.5 since Oct '25

Negative

Neutral

Positive

Negative

Positive

New South Wales

AMPLIFY Home Truths Index:

46.7%

Housing delivery measure

On track to build 221,428 of 373,669 homes needed

59.3%

+3.1 since Oct '25

COMMUNITY CONFIDENCE measure

0.366%

-3.2 since Oct '25

Negative

Neutral

Positive

Negative

Positive

Queensland

AMPLIFY Home Truths Index:

45.5%

Housing delivery measure

On track to build 171,581 of 247,629 homes needed

69.3%

+1.6 since Oct '25

COMMUNITY CONFIDENCE measure

0.293%

-4.6 since Oct '25

Negative

Neutral

Positive

Negative

Positive

Tasmania

AMPLIFY Home Truths Index:

35.5%

Housing delivery measure

On track to build 11,710 of 25,484 homes needed

45.9%

-1.7 since Oct '25

COMMUNITY CONFIDENCE measure

0.265%

-6.4 since Oct '25

Negative

Neutral

Positive

Negative

Positive

Northern Territory

Housing delivery measure

On track to build 2,522 of 11,136 homes needed

22.7%

+3.2 since Oct '25

*The Northern Territory is omitted from the AMPLIFY Home Truths Index due to a small sample of community respondents and associated risk of non-representative survey results.

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