Dr Kate Shaw (Melbourne University is quoted in this The Age article 8 December 2024.
'It was a scandal that a state-led pilot project would seek to build 60,000 new homes without stipulating one new affordable home.
“We are in an affordable housing crisis – the city is not short of high-end houses and apartments, it’s the low-cost end we need to focus on,” she said.
“Building more of the expensive dwellings that the market likes to provide is not helping those on low incomes – despite the trickle-down nonsense from the YIMBY [Yes In My Backyard] crowd.”
Email premier Jacinta Allan, planning minister Sonya Kilkenny and your state Labor MPs - this is absolutely not good enough.
Australia is one of the wealthiest countries in the world - yet we have housing insecurity on an enormous scale because our government's CHOOSE not to act.