Housing crisis shows no improvement one year after important promise
Victorians are facing spiking rents, ballooning public housing waitlists and stagnating social housing, while homeless services are at breaking point.
Updated 2024-Oct-06 22:00
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The federal government has hit a roadblock in the Senate over a shared equity scheme for housing deposits with the Greens and coalition opposing their Help to Buy scheme and the Build to Rent bill.
This bill aims to offer tax incentives for developers to construct new rental properties instead of selling them.
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The large scale housing construction project is a commendable effort but regrettably the data indicates that it will not be sufficient to solve the housing crisis.
Chief executive Deborah Di Natale stated that currently it is uncertain what percentage of the government s 800 000 home goal consists of social housing.
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The report suggested that the government revise its housing policy construct a minimum of 6000 public and community housing units annually for ten years and increase funding for homelessness support services.
Victorians are under worse pressure trying to keep a roof over their heads a year on from the state government’s landmark pledge to tackle the housing crisis.
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A Housing Insecurity Index gauging the pressure Victorians are under to secure stable housing has found the vulnerable are facing spiking rents ballooning public housing waitlists and stagnating social housing while homeless services are at breaking point.
There was an average annual increase of 295 social housing dwellings between 2017 and 2023. Victoria falls behind the rest of the country in social housing making up just 2.8 percent of its overall housing supply. The pressure of the situation has caused frontline workers to contemplate resigning due to increasing work demands.
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Approximately one third of Australians who use specialist homelessness services are based in Victoria and there is a rising number of employed individuals seeking assistance.
The number of requests for homelessness services rose from 30 510 in July 2017 to 32 496 in June this year with over 10 000 individuals consistently unable to afford housing since 2023.Residents of the state s 44 public housing high rises have sued the government for proposing to renovate the towers by 2051 requiring over 10 000 tenants to move.
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From March to June almost 3000 new housing requests were made bringing the total number to 61 587.The public housing waiting list is extremely high and shows no signs of decreasing similar to a sold out Marvel Stadium.
Housing crisis worsens a year on from pledge.
