Infrastructure targets and plans for green space and community buildings are also needed, say experts.
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has released housing targets for all Victorian council areas.Allan said the draft targets provided an “overall picture of how we grow as a state equitably” so that more Victorians could afford a home in a location where they wanted to live.“Outer growth areas are currently picking up all the slack, and that’s not sustainable,” Allan said on Sunday.
RMIT urban planning professor Andrew Butt welcomed the housing targets, saying they provided clarity and expectations. But he said the state government was still relying on fringe suburbs to drive the bulk of new homes and letting some middle-ring councils “off the hook”. Victoria’s branch of the Urban Development Institute of Australia argued that local councils would need support from the state government to address the housing crisis
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