This is the largest housing commitment the Commonwealth has made in a generation, $10 billion against a target of 20,000 social and 20,000 affordable homes, and the number that tests it is completions.

Some reporting exists and the register should be accurate about it. The Housing Australia Investment Mandate requires Housing Australia to publish detail within six months of a financing decision, and it does; it also maintains a page describing overall progress on contracted dwellings. So a reader can establish what has been committed and, broadly, to whom.

Completions are a different matter. The Auditor-General found that Treasury "publicly reports on the overall delivery of social and affordable housing" but that the reporting covers the Future Fund, the National Housing Accord Facility and the Social Housing Accelerator "in aggregate", and "does not report separately on the performance of the individual programs". The figure that prompted most of the public argument -- 1,432 homes completed as at April 2026, against 40,000 -- appears in the audit, in a table the audit had to construct.

The data exists on a quarterly cycle. The ANAO's fifth recommendation asks Treasury to report publicly on program performance, and gives as candidate measures "dwellings delivered versus forecast deliveries" and information similar to the quarterly reporting Treasury already provides to government. Treasury agreed. So the internal series exists, the auditor has recommended publishing it, and the department has accepted the recommendation.

Housing Australia's financing decision disclosures and its contracted-progress page give commitments. The ANAO performance audit is the practical source for a completions figure, and is a point-in-time document produced on the audit office's schedule rather than the program's.

State governments and providers announce individual projects, allowing a partial bottom-up reconstruction that is incomplete by construction.

Marked verified on 2026-09-03: the audit report was downloaded and its text searched, not read about. Table 2.3 gives 1,432 completed, paragraph 3.125 carries the words "does not report separately on the performance of the individual programs", and the summary page states Treasury's $770,387 estimate of average government support per dwelling over 25 years.

Checked against the audit report on 2026-09-01, which confirmed the entry and narrowed it.

The completions figure and the aggregation finding are both verified: Table 2.3 records 1,432 completed for rounds one and two and none for round three, and paragraph 3.125 carries the aggregate-reporting finding in the words quoted above. Recommendation 5 and Treasury's agreement to it are as described.

What the check corrected is the implication that nothing is published at project level. Housing Australia's Investment Mandate disclosures are real and were not accounted for in the first draft, so fragmented has been dropped and the entry now claims only what the audit supports: performance and completions are not reported per program or per project, while commitments largely are.

This is among the strongest cases in the register precisely because none of it is contested. The data is collected quarterly, the auditor has recommended publishing it, and the department has agreed. What remains is for the agreed recommendation to be implemented, which is a matter of record rather than argument.

The contrast worth keeping beside this entry is the Clean Energy Regulator's small-scale technology data, which reports household battery uptake by postcode on a rolling basis. Same government, same year, same question shape -- how much of the thing has happened, and where.

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