New consortium to provide cheap homes in Qld

A Brisbane lawyer is leading a new push to provide affordable housing across Queensland.

Heather Watson from the Queensland Community Housing Coalition is building a consortium of housing organisations, councils, developers and bankers to provide cheap accommodation.

Ms Watson says the units will be built in towns and cities with a severe shortage of low cost living.

She says the proposed consortium will be a first for Australia.

"The coalition has identified a number of hotspots, Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Hervey Bay, Sunshine Coast, Brisbane and the Gold Coast," she said.

"Its being treated as a pilot project and if successful we are hoping this will be a model for further developments.

"The main issue with this particular initiative is that it is being approached on a collaborative basis, it's not just single interests that are being combined.

"If successful we are hoping it will be treated as a model for further developments."