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Housing target progress in Melbourne LGAs.

Housing targets falling short in nearly all Victorian council areas

Melbourne is on track to fall well short of its housing aims – a trend that could worsen the state’s housing crisis and prompt the state government to intervene.

  • Angus Delaney

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Bushland in Belrose and Oxford Falls would be rezoned for housing and other development under the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council plan.

To ignore RFS advice on housing isn’t just disrespectful. It’s stupid

Attempts to improve the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act are welcome in the current housing crisis. But disregarding advice from our emergency services is folly.

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The government is fast tracking assessments to push more housing into the construction pipeline.

AI and a new ‘strike team’ deployed to combat housing crisis

The federal government will fast track the assessment of 26,000 homes held up by delays in the environmental approval process as it tries to meet its targets.

  • Nick Newling
My housemates and I lit candles to get around the house, but they did very little for the cold.

Candles don’t quite cut it in a powerless share house

Like the electricity in our 100-year-old home, the supply of housing is more scarce than we think.

  • Millie Muroi
Cassidy Knowlton helming the grill at a building barbecue

The secret life of us: From tomatoes to soy sauce, this is what apartment living should be

I’ve been in Melbourne almost half my life, but as a native New Yorker, I have always found Australians’ preferences for freestanding houses baffling.

  • Cassidy Knowlton

I bought into the dream of apartment living. The reality has been far different

I’m 34, married with no children, and doing a PhD in architecture and planning – the ideal candidate for the state government’s apartment plan. But apartment living has turned out be full of extra costs, defects and frustrations.

  • Merrick Morley
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Minister for Communications and Minister for Sport Anika Wells, Minister for Housing, Minister for Homelessness and Minister for Cities Clare O’Neil and Minister for Education Jason Clare as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks at the start of a Cabinet meeting, at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 26 May 2025. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Housing minister, roundtable keen to take red pen to 3000-page building code

 Business bosses, unions and ministers have agreed Australia must strip away red and green tape to speed up home construction, as momentum builds to overhaul Australia’s complex building code. 

  • Paul Sakkal, Shane Wright, Millie Muroi and Brittany Busch
Victoria Barracks in Paddington is

Don’t jump the gun. Paddington’s Victoria Barracks must not be converted for housing

In-filling the Barracks with affordable housing will not solve Sydney’s housing crisis, but it will destroy a part of our heritage.

  • Linda Bergin
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Federal Minister for Housing Clare O’Neil and Federal Member for Jagajaga Kate Thwaites tour a Housing Australia Future Fund building site at Rosanna in Melbourne, Tuesday, August 12, 2025. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING AFR

‘Ridiculous regulation’: Labor makes housing central to economic summit

As new data reveals homeownership becoming a more distant dream, slashing housing red tape is firming as an area in which new policies will follow Labor’s economic roundtable.

  • Paul Sakkal and Shane Wright
Businessman Joseph Gersh at the Saint Haven club in South Yarra.

Joe Gersh thinks Melbourne is falling behind Sydney. And he knows how to fix it

The first thing that hits is the smell of premium scented air. The exclusive venue is where I sit down to lunch with Joe Gersh, businessman, philanthropist, ex-ABC board member turned virulent critic – a man who upended his life and doesn’t pull any punches.

  • Stephen Brook