Experts say other interim measures,such as rent caps and slowing immigration,are needed to ease the pressure on renters until 1.2 million needed homes are built.
The state’s peak social service body suggests there is more Labor could be doing to ease housing pressures – and turns the spotlight on the LNP.
Port Melbourne residents have joined forces with former tenants of the Barak Beacon public housing block to fight plans to build an 11-storey tower on the site.
A new report also shows the state has only added about 300 new public homes in the past eight years.
Candidates at the coming local government elections will be asked to pledge that they will not block apartment developments,as YIMBY and pro-housing groups seek to expand their clout in key inner-city areas.
Architects and students have dozens of ideas of how Melbourne’s public housing towers can be revitalised and saved.
Influential construction unions have joined more than 30 Labor branches in contesting the Allan government’s plans to redevelop Melbourne’s 44 public housing towers.
Things Will Be Different tells the story of two of the final residents to vacate their homes ahead of a controversial public housing estate demolition.
The Coalition’s plan to allow Australians to use their super for housing would disproportionately help wealthier people buy more expensive homes.
Australia’s housing crisis will worsen in coming years. Independent MP Allegra Spender has a simple plan to help fix it.
North Melbourne has long been gentrified,and its mixed-income residents have always co-existed,but a windfall of government and private investment could change that.