Developers are increasing social housing by 10% with the redevelopment of nine inner-city estates in Melbourne.
The plan is to sell the land to the developers on the condition that an additional 10% of social housing is built on the sites to meet the demand for social housing, with an estimated 57,000 applicants on the waitlist.
Dr Kate Shaw, a public housing and urban geography expert in Victoria, said “pretty much everything about the program in its current approach is wrong” as she believes the 10% increase in social housing on the sites is “grossly inadequate” to address the waitlist in Victoria.