Housing advocates and council representatives have responded with cautious optimism to a new 27-year housing strategy for Victoria that assigns development targets to local councils, but called for more detail on how it will roll out.
On Sunday the Labor premier, Jacinta Allan, and the planning minister, Sonya Kilkenny, revealed draft housing targets for all local government areas in the state, with Melbourne’s central business district, its outer suburbs and the regional city of Geelong proposed to bear the brunt of development over the next three decades.
