The rise of government and industry partnerships in housing delivery

By

Shauna Hurley

, Nemesia Kennett

, and Andy Rampton

Last Updated Jun 17, 2026

By

Shauna Hurley

, Nemesia Kennett

, and Andy Rampton

As pressure mounts to meet ambitious national housing delivery targets, focus is increasingly shifting to how governments and industry can work together to deliver homes faster and at scale.

Procore’s State of Housing 2026 webinar recently brought together policymakers and industry leaders to explore how closer collaboration and innovation across planning, preconstruction and project delivery is helping accelerate housing delivery across Australia.

Opening the discussion, NSW Minister for Building Anoulack Chanthivong highlighted a raft of reforms aimed at faster approvals, clearer pathways for modular construction and more consistent delivery frameworks designed to reduce duplication and increase certainty for industry.

But as Nemesia Kennett, Senior Development Director at Development Victoria explained, closer collaboration between governments and industry is one of the keys to delivering housing at scale.

For agencies like Development Victoria, that means taking a more active role in coordinating housing delivery in collaboration with industry.

Turning policy into real residential projects

Development Victoria is the government's property developer, essentially. There are similar agencies in each state and we’re all slightly different.

For us, the focus is really looking at boots on the ground delivery and the policies that have been put in place. How do we turn them into actual housing outcomes?

To do that, we’re always looking to see how we can leverage what industry already does best and the different ways we can support that. Ultimately we want to create opportunities for industry to crack on and build homes and community infrastructure.

Nemesia Kennett

Senior Development Director

Development Victoria

State-led housing projects increasingly involve multiple government agencies, private consortiums, housing providers and infrastructure requirements working together across long delivery timelines.

For builders, contractors and project teams, that means greater emphasis on compliance and the coordination of multi-stakeholder projects from the earliest stages of preconstruction onwards.

Why governments are taking a bigger role in housing delivery

Agencies like Development Victoria are taking a more active role in preparing government land for housing delivery and removing common barriers that can prevent projects proceeding.

“We look at providing pathways for developers and offer clarity on government expectations and requirements,” Nemesia says. “That means structuring projects in flexible ways that better reflect real-world market conditions and delivery constraints.”

“So for example that can involve staged or deferred land payments, carving sites up into multiple super lots or thinking about cash flow in terms of what's possible in any given market.”

“At Development Victoria, social outcomes and commercial viability are not seen as competing interests. They’re considered together and clearly articulated from the earliest stages of a project. It’s a similar picture with sustainability outcomes and prefabrication options — if requirements and objectives are clearly defined upfront in the bid process, it allows industry to better understand and respond to them.”

Construction continues across the Fitzroy Gasworks precinct, which combines housing delivery with major infrastructure and community facilities in Melbourne’s inner north. Image courtesy of Development Victoria.

Fitzroy Gasworks shows what state-led housing partnerships can deliver

The Fitzroy Gasworks redevelopment in Melbourne’s inner north demonstrates what this new approach to coordinated housing delivery looks like on the ground.

“We're delivering this major project in a very urban, high-density area, and it's a great real world example of the way government is now bringing together a range of stakeholders to deliver housing at scale,” Nemesia says.

“In partnership with the private sector and community housing providers, we're delivering 1,400 homes across a 3.9-hectare former gasworks site. The project combines build-to-rent and social and affordable housing alongside major public infrastructure and community facilities.”

The Department of Transport and Planning undertook a really significant site remediation project. Being a gasworks, it was obviously a heavily contaminated site — something that would have been very difficult for the development industry to take on, particularly in the current market.

So the state government de-risked the site for the private sector, helping create a more balanced mix of risk and opportunity for the market.

At the time, it was the largest site remediation project ever undertaken in Victoria and that’s something we’re really proud of.

Nemesia Kennett

Senior Development Director

Development Victoria

The broader precinct also includes Bundha Sports Centre — Australia’s vertical sports facility — as well as a vertical high school and integrated public amenity.

“The State also partnered with architects, developers and builders to deliver a precinct with both housing and community amenities,” Nemesia says.

“We put a lot of thinking into how we can make medium density housing the best it can be, providing that amenity right on the doorstep, and we’re seeing so many positive outcomes from that.”

Projects like Fitzroy Gasworks show how governments, private developers and housing providers are working together to deliver large-scale housing projects.

 Bundha Sports Centre sits within the Fitzroy Gasworks redevelopment — a large-scale government and industry partnership delivering housing alongside major community infrastructure. Image courtesy of Development Victoria.

Faster housing delivery demands more than planning reform

Alongside planning reform and stronger government and industry partnerships, the webinar also underscored the need to build national workforce capability, support modular construction and strengthen long-term delivery capacity.

Minister Chanthivong pointed to reforms aimed at streamlining approvals, creating clearer pathways for prefabricated construction and strengthening confidence across the building sector. These align with the NSW Government’s recently announced new building laws designed to better support modular and prefabricated construction and introduce stronger penalties for certifiers.

He also pointed to the NSW Government’s recent investment in skills and training, including a record $2.5 billion budget for TAFE NSW aimed at supporting the next generation of construction workers and apprentices.

Closing the webinar, Procore Industry Transformation Leader Andy Rampton pointed to the growing role collaboration now plays in delivering housing at scale — from planning and approvals through to infrastructure, procurement and project delivery.

Government planning reforms and risk-sharing initiatives are critical catalysts, but to accelerate housing delivery, the construction industry must also evolve.

We need a quantum leap in supply chain collaboration, and that becomes possible only when we connect developers, sub-contractors and modular manufacturers on a single digital plane.

The good news is that by leveraging advanced digital technology and shared data from day one of preconstruction, we can slash rework, eliminate the fragmentation that so often slows us down, and build a secure, resilient and growing pipeline of housing at scale.

Andy Rampton

Industry Transformation Leader (APAC)

Procore

Next in our State of Housing 2026 webinar series recap, Andy is joined by McNab Head of Property Development Andrew Hay and Civil Contractors Federation CEO Nicholas Proud to explore the infrastructure challenges slowing housing supply across Australia.

Together, they look at the widening gap between land availability and infrastructure delivery — from rezoning and developer contributions through to roads, utilities and civil works — and why closer collaboration between civil and residential construction is becoming critical to unlocking housing supply at scale.

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Shauna Hurley

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Shauna is never short of questions when it comes to construction, tech and science. A professional writer, researcher and podcast producer, she loves sitting down with industry insiders for in-depth interviews that uncover the latest developments, debates and emerging trends. Having worked with organisations like Microsoft and the European Bank of Reconstruction, Shauna joined Procore to explore the complex issues facing construction and share fresh, research-rich insights that help professionals navigate a rapidly evolving industry.

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Nemesia Kennett

Senior Development Director | Development Victoria

Nemesia Kennett is Senior Development Director at Development Victoria, where she leads regional housing projects in partnership with local councils, joint venture partners and government agencies across Victoria.

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Andy Rampton

Industry Transformation Leader (APAC) | Procore

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As the APAC Industry Transformation Lead for Procore, Andy Rampton utilises his 30+ years' global experience in engineering, construction and property development to influence industry change and help create a pathway towards the long-awaited digital transformation of construction. Having sat in the industry and experienced the evolution of technology as a user, procurer and strategist, Andy saw first-hand the challenges that companies have in defining and sustaining meaningful technology- and data-enabled change in the face of overwhelming technology choices. He joined Procore with the intent to both promote the benefits of technology and data and also to improve the relationship between tech provider and customer such that the transition to the future of construction becomes a lot easier to navigate.

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