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Cabinet plan to boost social housing dumped in favour of developers (www.theage.com.au)

submitted 1 year ago by LineNoise@kbin.social to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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The Andrews government dumped an ambitious cabinet-approved plan to lift the proportion of social housing in Victoria by almost two-thirds, opting instead to respond to the housing crisis with a voluntary, developer-led delivery of so-called affordable housing.

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[–] Peddlephile@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I've worked on a few of the most recent social housing projects and, my god, there's such a disconnect with how much the state thinks housing should cost compared to the real cost. In short, the projects end up being criminally under funded for what they expect and you end up with everything absolutely gutted - materials, lighting, security etc.

My tin foil hat and I say that a lot of the state's money goes to stupid infrastructure projects for Transurban to build, leaving pennies for everything else.