Housing for all Victorians

Providing all Victorians with a choice of a well-designed home at an affordable price and close to daily needs.

Ensuring housing is affordable, diverse and accessible is central to creating inclusive, prosperous, liveable communities.

"Our housing will be consistently functional, inclusive, accessible, fair and sustainable. Victorians will live in diverse forms of housing that meet the needs of the public and contribute to our multi-faceted and vibrant community, providing accessible services, lively centres and open space.

We will increase medium-density housing and limit urban sprawl to preserve our natural landscapes and biodiversity.

The Victorian government will proactively align their policies with other levels of government to facilitate ample and affordable private and social housing."

The People’s Panel’s vision for housing for all Victorians

As part of our living plan, we will track delivery of inclusive communities:

  • opportunities for all
  • diverse communities
  • strong communities
  • good governance.

Enabling:

More homes: We’ll aim to build 2.24 million homes across Melbourne and our regional cities and towns over the next 30 years. Local government housing targets will show us where these new homes will go.
Greater diversity: We’ll have a greater diversity of homes, so you have more choices and more opportunities to live where you want to live: close to your family, jobs, shops, public transport and community facilities and services at all stages of your life. These homes will be suitable for a variety of  households, including families, singles and seniors.
Affordable and fair housing: You’ll be able to find a home that’s right for you, including modern social and affordable housing.
More housing and choice across regional Victoria: There will be more homes in regional cities in locations well-serviced with jobs, shops, public transport and community facilities and services. We’ll look for opportunities to build more homes to support big projects in regional Victoria, like energy projects. We’ll also protect the unique values and distinctive attributes of towns and landscapes across regional and rural Victoria against overuse, overdevelopment and climate change impacts.
Innovative building solutions: We’ll reduce the costs and construction times of new homes while promoting environmentally sustainable developments by supporting and prioritising better-designed apartments and sustainable and modern methods of construction.

Victoria's Housing Statement

We’re delivering on the September 2023 Victoria’s Housing Statement to boost housing supply across the state, including social and affordable homes, by reforming our planning system. This is part of a suite of actions that include encouraging great design standards, strengthening renters’ rights, safeguarding essential quarry resources, streamlining approvals for construction materials and slashing stamp duty on off-the-plan apartments, units and townhouses to cut upfront costs, speed-up building and make buying off-the-plan more affordable. We want Victoria to stay number one in Australia for approving and building homes.

Find out more about Victoria’s Housing Statement.

Where Victoria will change

Map showing planned changes for regional Victoria

Where Melbourne will change

More homes will be built in Melbourne in well-connected, well-serviced locations around activity centres, train stations and priority precincts. More homes will be built in Melbourne’s growth areas while maintaining the existing Urban Growth Boundary, protecting economic and environmental values and providing homes in the right places.

Map showing planned changes for Melbourne