More social housing in Victoria and

Queensland

20 October 2023 More than a hundred homes will be built in Melbourne’s outer north under Victoria’s second social housing project. This second accelerator project comes amid poor housing supply and continual rising rental costs. Premier Jacinta Allan visited Broadmeadows to announce that 80 million dollars would be spent on building the social-housing homes on vacant land. There will be a mix of one, two and three-bedroom homes and properties built specifically to cater for disability inclusion. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and former Premier Daniel Andrews, last month announced the first accelerator project would involve demolishing and redevelop two vacant red-brick towers in Carlton. In the meantime, more federal funding is being provided for social housing across Queensland. A further six hundred homes will be built across the state, after a growing demand for social housing. Almost 400 million dollars from the federal government’s Social Housing Accelerator fund will deliver the homes. This will add to the Queensland government’s five-billion-dollar social and affordable housing investment, that will help start 13-and-a-half thousand homes by 2027.

Greek Tribune Adelaide, South Australia