Cost of living pressure is being blamed for the third consecutive quarterly increase to the number of Victorian families trying to get into social housing.
Former WestConnex tunnelling sites will be upzoned for units,but Greens and Labor councillors have clashed over how much should be devoted to public housing.
The new developments will have community and “affordable” housing,but none of it will be state run.
Hundreds of homes have been completed with work under way on thousands more across the country.
Advocate Cory Memery says the government can’t “wash its hands” of vulnerable Victorians,and that any new investment – like the $30 billion build recommended by Infrastructure Victoria – should be for state-managed public housing.
Organisations say shelter needs to be set up for the region’s homeless population now.
More than 100 people in this inner Sydney suburb have been given six months’ warning they have to leave. They don’t know where they’ll move.
Daniel Andrews’ final promise was pitched as visionary urban renewal,but it has left many Labor figures livid,deepening tensions over the state’s housing future.
And the myth of mock quinces.
Six of 44 people who died in preventable house fires over five years were public housing tenants,despite the homes being a tiny fraction of Victoria’s housing stock.