The simple answer is population growth. But the full story is a little more nuanced. South East Queensland has been one of the fastest growing regions in Australia for decades. In 1991 the region had around 1.9 million residents. By 2021 that number had grown to almost 3.8 million people, and it continues to climb each year. Planning forecasts anticipate the population of South East Queensland to reach six million people by 2046, meaning the region will need hundreds of thousands of additional homes to accommodate that growth. This growth isn’t happening randomly. It is driven by: At one point the region was gaining around 1,200 new residents every week, and the pace of growth has remained strong ever since. Families Have Changed and So Have Housing Needs Population growth alone doesn’t explain the whole challenge. The way households are structured today is vastly different to what it looked like when many suburbs in the Hills District were first developed. In the 1980s and 1990s, the typical suburban household often looked like: Those children grew up in suburbs like Arana Hills, Ferny Hills, and Everton Hills, and many of them now want to raise their own families in the same