The Victorian government wants to unlock more vacant land for new homes by giving local councils fresh housing targets. It will see some inner Melbourne councils build tens of thousands of new homes over the next three decades to help slow urban sprawl.
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00:00A new target to address the challenge on the horizon.
00:06Good quality housing close to public transport services and jobs.
00:12Council areas across Victoria have been given new housing targets to boost supply over the
00:17next 30 years.
00:19Victoria needs to build 2 million homes by 2051 to accommodate a rapidly growing population
00:26And the Premier says some councils need to start pulling their weight.
00:30Locking up particular suburbs because your political preference is to not build homes
00:35in those suburbs, that's not an answer.
00:38Under the plan, Mitchell Shire will see the largest increase in the number of dwellings
00:42by 2051, rising more than 300 per cent.
00:46Melton is set to increase by 190 per cent and housing in Moorable and Golden Plains
00:53in the state's south-west will also explode.
00:57Those outer growth areas are currently picking up all of the slack, that's not sustainable.
01:01Almost 140,000 new homes are targeted for the Geelong region over the next three decades.
01:08While inner-city Melbourne hasn't escaped the growth targets, with stand-alone houses
01:13making way for developments.
01:15What we need to see across Melbourne is an increase in density gently in each area.
01:20We're not talking about building towering blocks next to ordinary people's houses, but
01:26in fact having that gentle increase of townhouses and smaller apartment blocks.
01:31When I think about those conversations, I know they're not going to be easy ones.
01:35I know they're going to be ones that are going to require people to compromise and think
01:38about change.
01:39Final targets for each council will be released by the end of the year.