The NSW government's Regional Housing Taskforce handed down its report on Tuesday with recommendations on how to address rising house prices and fewer rental vacancies.

The five recommendations included supporting measures that bring forward a supply of development-ready land, increasing the availability of affordable and diverse housing and providing more certainty about where, when and what types of homes will be built.

A number of Wagga residents and organisations had made submissions to the taskforce with their ideas.

Anthony Balding, the managing director of Buildpro Wagga, National Tiles Riverina and Lighting Network Wagga, warned that thousands of jobs in the city were at risk.

"The special activation precinct plan of Bomen is earmarked to create over 8000 jobs with a huge investment from NSW government to generate new large businesses to our region," he said in his submission. "If we don't supply enough housing or rental accommodation to support the state government's investment, then it is at huge risk of failure."

A Lake Albert resident submitted his own concept for a 'quadplex' of affordable units that could be built on the space of two normal blocks "as a stepping stone for young married couples or rental possibilities".

Wagga MP Joe McGirr said that the government should act with "urgency" on the taskforce's recommendations.

"One of the major factors that is impeding businesses recruiting a workforce here has been the housing market," Dr McGirr said.

"Particularly in Wagga we are affected by a lack of housing; it's good to have the city growing but we aren't going to get that workforce if they don't have somewhere to live."

Dr McGirr said the special activation precinct was a model for how land zoning and infrastructure could be used to create areas that were ready for development and the government could also use its own land for higher density housing.

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Deputy Premier and Regional NSW Minister Paul Toole welcomed the taskforce's report as means to provide "advice on how to address housing pressure in the bush".

"The report gives clear recommendations to consider how we can use the levers within the planning system to fast-track supply of shovel-ready land and deliver more homes for families," Mr Toole said.

Planning and Public Spaces Minister Rob Stokes said the government would now consider the recommendations and provide a response later this year.

Labor housing spokeswoman Rose Jackson said the government needed to act in the short term by supporting more social housing.

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