Last month, The Guardian reported that Victoria had spent about half the national average per person on social housing and that the stock of social homes has fallen to the lowest proportion of all housing in Australia:
The Victorian government has built only 57 of the 1,000 new public housing units it pledged by 2022…
It comes as analysis obtained by Guardian Australia suggests there are nearly 30,000 children among the 100,000 people on the state’s ballooning housing waiting list.