The state government set an ambitious target to build 800,000 new dwellings over a decade to fix the housing crisis. It’s off to a slow start.
The property industry says Melbourne’s existing stock of housing is being underutilised. Encouraging “empty nesters” to sell could be part of the solution.
Treasurer Tim Pallas warns a failure to shore up the state’s financial position,including bringing down debt,could have serious consequences for its credit rating.
The Allan government wants Melbourne to grow upwards and not outwards with more homes in existing suburbs,but a new report says avoiding urban sprawl is impossible.
The Allan government is facing a challenge over claims that Victoria’s political donation laws are a rort giving the major parties an unfair advantage.
On Gold Street in Clifton Hill there is a stark reminder of the suburb’s past and future. On one side is a primary school – on the other side,an aged care home.
Birth rates are plunging across inner and middle suburbs as cost-of-living pressures drive families to the city’s fringe.
A plunge in birth rates in parts of Melbourne is being blamed on a lack of affordable housing and other cost-of-living pressures.
Almost 100,000 homes in Melbourne are either unoccupied or barely occupied. They could fix the public housing waiting list twice over.
Aged care workers,primary teachers,nurses,paramedics and police are being forced to Melbourne’s fringes by high housing costs,prompting warnings about worker shortages.