How many homes has the Albanese government funded or delivered since May 2022?
Executive summary
Available government media releases and program updates show the Albanese government has funded or committed to fund tens of thousands of homes since taking office in May 2022 — headline program targets include 30,000 social and affordable homes from the Housing Australia Future Fund’s early rounds, around 4,000 homes from the Social Housing Accelerator, and broader program commitments that together are described as funding or enabling roughly 40,000 social and affordable rental homes in initial rounds [1] [2] [3] [4]. Independent and media reporting by May 2025 and later notes completed delivery is smaller: “completed more than 5,000” social and affordable homes with “25,000 more in planning and construction” reported by government sources in late 2025 [5] [6].
1. What the government counts as “funded” or “delivered”
The government’s public statements mix program commitments, funding rounds struck with partners, homes unlocked by infrastructure grants and homes under construction. For example, first rounds of the Housing Australia Future Fund and National Housing Accord are reported as delivering 4,220 social and 9,522 affordable homes (total ~13,742) and the government says these programs will fund 40,000 new rental homes over time [4] [3]. Separately, the $2 billion Social Housing Accelerator is described as delivering “around 4,000” homes via state allocations [2] [7]. Those numbers reflect agreements and program outputs rather than a simple count of completed dwellings [3] [2].
2. Early program totals and headline commitments
Key headline figures across ministry releases include: HAFF’s early objective of 30,000 new homes over five years in some documents and pressure to create 30,000 in HAFF’s first five years [1] [8]; the Housing Australia round 1 outcomes of 4,220 social and 9,522 affordable homes [4]; the Social Housing Accelerator’s roughly 4,000 homes [2]; and repeated government statements that initial initiatives together will fund about 40,000 social and affordable rental homes [3] [9].
3. Delivery vs planning: what independent reporting finds
Independent reporting and later government summaries show a gap between funding commitments and completed homes. By November 2025 government material states HAFF Round 3 will deliver more than 21,000 homes and that “since coming to office, the Albanese Labor Government has completed more than 5,000 social and affordable homes with 25,000 more in planning and construction” [5] [6]. Media analysis in May 2025 flagged the government was on track to fall well short of the 1.2 million homes national target and referenced the government’s own adviser raising shortfall concerns [10].
4. State-level and project-specific examples
Ministerial and prime ministerial releases list many discrete projects and unlocks: infrastructure investments described as “unlocking” tens of thousands of new homes in NSW (25,000 or nearly 60,000 in different announcements linked to enabling projects) and smaller completed projects — e.g., 15 new homes in Devonport, 16 dwellings in Perth — funded via federal initiatives and state partnerships [11] [12] [13] [14]. Those “unlocked” numbers are estimates of potential supply enabled by infrastructure rather than immediately built, occupied homes [11] [12].
5. How to read these figures — competing perspectives
Government communications emphasize program totals, homes funded or enabled, and long-term pipeline targets [1] [15] [3]. Critics and some media reports stress that actual completed homes lag far behind aspirational targets, highlighting independent council assessments and statistics showing the government trailing its 1.2 million target and only a few thousand completions by mid‑2025 [10] [5]. Both perspectives are supported by the provided sources: government releases document program commitments and early rounds [4] [2], while outside reporting notes the shortfall in on‑the‑ground completions [10].
6. What’s not in the available sources
Available sources do not provide a single, consolidated, auditable tally that answers “how many homes has the Albanese government funded or delivered since May 2022” in one number combining every program and stage. There is no single government table in these materials showing cumulative funded-versus-completed totals across all programs for the full May 2022–present period (not found in current reporting). Where exact cumulative delivered figures are quoted, they appear in later summaries (e.g., “completed more than 5,000” as of late 2025) alongside pipeline counts [5] [6].
7. Bottom line for readers
Based on government releases: initial funding rounds and program commitments since May 2022 account for tens of thousands of homes funded or enabled (headlines include ~13,700 from early HAFF rounds, ~4,000 from the Social Housing Accelerator, and program claims that initial initiatives will fund ~40,000 social and affordable homes overall) [4] [2] [3]. Independent reporting and later government summaries show completed homes are substantially fewer — in the low thousands by mid‑2025 with several tens of thousands in planning or construction by late 2025 [10] [5]. The exact consolidated total for “funded or delivered” across all programs since May 2022 is not published in the materials provided (not found in current reporting).