City of Adelaide

Region: Central Adelaide

Major suburbs: Adelaide and North Adelaide

Population: 25,000 residents and 315,000 daily city users

The City of Adelaide includes a mix of residents, business owners and visitors, all who enjoy a safe, clean and vibrant city, surrounded by beautiful Park Lands.

Adelaide is a city for people of all ages and abilities to explore; with a wide range of sports and recreation, schools, universities, libraries and community centres that bring people together to learn and converse.

Housing initiatives being offered

Adaptive Reuse City Housing Initiative

In collaboration with the State Government, the City of Adelaide is identifying ways to remove or address barriers to the repurposing of older and vacant buildings in the City of Adelaide to deliver an adaptive reuse development.

The City of Adelaide Housing Strategy targets 50 dwellings annually through adaptive reuse of underutilised buildings. For the current financial year, 7 dwellings have been approved for funding, and 45 more are in the pipeline as adaptive reuse developments.

Property Development Activities

The City of Adelaide facilitates housing outcomes through its strategic property holdings in partnership with the development sector. Current examples include:

Delivery of the Market Square and 88 O’Connell projects with the City of Adelaide’s project development partners to realise a combined total of 407 apartments.
Sale of the former Bus Station site to Renewal SA for a housing and mixed-use development. Renewal SA’s resulting Tapangka on Franklin project will deliver 392 apartments with 35% affordable housing.

The City of Adelaide’s purchase of land at 218-232 Flinders Street in order to realise greater housing and affordable housing options within the city. Site investigations and master planning with respect to future development options are underway.

Key residential housing developments

Eighty Eight O’Connell, 73-88 O’Connell Street, North Adelaide - 176 apartments
Victoria Tower, 32-38 Grote Street, Adelaide - 285 apartments
Market Square, 21-59 Grote Street, Adelaide - 231 apartments
The Cullinan, 181-185 Waymouth Street, Adelaide - 177 apartments
Avanti – 399 King William Street, Adelaide - 60 apartments
Tucker Street Apartments, 299-309 Pirie Street, Adelaide - 50 apartments
YWCA, 17 Hutt Street, Adelaide - 24 apartments
Valerie Apartments, 193 Angas Street, Adelaide - 37 apartments
200 East Terrace, 200-206 East Terrace, Adelaide - 36 apartments

Other incentives being offered to new residents

Sustainability Incentives Scheme

The City of Adelaide’s Sustainability Incentives Scheme assists homeowners to install technologies that reduce utility costs and environmental impact by providing rebates on new technology or appliances. It provided funding to over 700 projects between 2015 and 2022. Since 2023, the scheme has included the replacement of gas appliances with electrical appliances, providing up to $1,000 towards individual appliance costs, and up to $25,000 for a whole building approach undertaken by residential strata apartment body corporates.

To help residents reduce their carbon emissions and carbon footprint, City of Adelaide has a range of Sustainability Incentives for residents including:

Appliance electrification
Switchboard upgrades
Solar PV
Active transport
Insulation, shading devices & thermal efficient windows/doors

Heritage Incentives Scheme

The Heritage Incentives Scheme is a funding program that reimburses owners of heritage and unlisted historic character places that meet specific criteria, a portion of the costs for professional advice and documentation, and conservation work.

Noise Management Incentives Scheme

The City of Adelaide offers eligible residents incentives to help address and rectify external noise impacts on their homes.

Adaptive Reuse City Housing Initiative Incentive Scheme

The City of Adelaide with State Government funding support, is offering incentives to support the conversion of buildings up to four-storeys to residential uses.