Milestone at KDL Property Group’s Elridge community highlights progress in delivering more attainable housing across South East Queensland
A key milestone has been reached in Queensland’s push to improve housing accessibility, with 200 homes now completed under the Everyone’s Place housing program.
The milestone was marked at Stage 3 of KDL Property Group’s Elridge community in Jimboomba, where Housing Minister Sam O’Connor toured the program’s 200th home alongside delivery partners Tetris Capital, EveryOne — a division of Metricon Homes — National Affordable Housing and ANZ.
The event brought together representatives from across government, development, construction and finance, reflecting the multi-layered approach required to deliver housing at scale in the current market.
A Collaborative Model for Housing Delivery
The Everyone’s Place initiative is built on a simple but increasingly important principle: housing challenges cannot be solved by one part of the industry alone.
Instead, the program brings together a consortium of stakeholders, each contributing a different piece of the delivery puzzle.
Government provides direction and support.
Developers create the communities and unlock land.
Builders deliver the homes.
Financial partners enable the funding structures required to make projects viable.
The presence of all key partners at the Jimboomba milestone reflects the level of coordination required to move projects like this forward.
Housing Minister Sam O’Connor’s attendance reinforced the government’s role in supporting initiatives that aim to increase housing supply and improve affordability outcomes for Queenslanders.
The Role of KDL Property Group
The milestone event was hosted within KDL Property Group’s Elridge community, positioning the development as one of the key locations contributing to the program’s progress.
For KDL, involvement in the Everyone’s Place initiative reflects a broader alignment with the need to support housing supply across South East Queensland.
By providing land within a masterplanned community environment, KDL enables projects like Everyone’s Place to be delivered within established, connected locations rather than in isolation.
This is a critical factor in ensuring that new housing is not just delivered quickly, but also integrates into functioning communities with access to services, infrastructure and amenity.
The Jimboomba location itself is representative of a wider trend, with growth corridors across South East Queensland playing an increasingly important role in accommodating population growth and new housing demand.
Industry Partners Driving Delivery
While the development sets the stage, delivery partners are responsible for bringing the housing product to life.
EveryOne, a division of Metricon Homes, is a key delivery partner within the program, working alongside organisations including Tetris Capital, National Affordable Housing and ANZ.
Each partner contributes to the broader objective of delivering more attainable housing options, combining expertise across construction, funding, and housing provision.
The inclusion of institutional and financial partners highlights the complexity of delivering affordable housing in today’s environment, where feasibility often depends on carefully structured funding models.
It also signals a shift toward more integrated delivery frameworks, where multiple organisations work together under a shared objective rather than operating independently.
A Milestone That Reflects Broader Progress
Reaching 200 completed homes is a meaningful milestone, particularly in a market where housing supply has struggled to keep pace with demand.
While the number itself represents a portion of the overall pipeline, it provides a tangible indication that projects are moving from planning into delivery.
Importantly, milestones like this serve as proof points for the viability of collaborative housing models.
They demonstrate that when government policy, private development, construction capability and funding are aligned, outcomes can be achieved on the ground.
This is particularly relevant in South East Queensland, where population growth continues to place pressure on housing availability and affordability.
Jimboomba and the Importance of Growth Areas
The choice of Jimboomba as a delivery location is not incidental.
As part of a broader growth corridor, the area offers a combination of available land and increasing infrastructure investment, making it well suited to new residential development.
Communities like Elridge are designed to accommodate this growth, providing a framework for staged development that can respond to demand over time.
By integrating housing initiatives such as Everyone’s Place within these communities, developers and government can ensure that new supply is delivered in locations capable of supporting long-term population growth.
This approach also helps avoid fragmented development, where housing is delivered without the surrounding infrastructure required to support it.
Addressing Housing Supply Through Partnership
The Everyone’s Place milestone reinforces a broader industry reality: addressing housing supply challenges requires coordinated effort.
No single organisation, whether government, builder or developer, has the capacity to solve the issue in isolation.
Instead, progress depends on alignment.
Alignment between policy and delivery.
Alignment between land and construction.
Alignment between funding and feasibility.
The program’s structure reflects this, bringing together a range of stakeholders under a shared objective to deliver more attainable housing outcomes.
The Good Builder Perspective
There is no shortage of discussion around housing supply in Australia.
What is often missing is visible progress.
The completion of 200 homes under the Everyone’s Place program is a clear example of movement in the right direction — not in theory, but in delivery.
It highlights what can be achieved when the right pieces come together.
For the industry, the takeaway is straightforward.
Collaboration is no longer optional.
It is essential.
And while milestones like this do not solve the housing challenge on their own, they provide a framework for how progress can be made.
One project, one partnership, and one community at a time.
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