This objective aims to ensure Victorians have safe homes that provide emotional and physical sanctuary. Victorians have security of tenure in housing that is appropriate to their needs, including that it is accessible, high quality, affordable and tailored to them. This outcome includes supports to address and reduce housing insecurity and homelessness, to enable suitable housing for all.
Objective 4 objective indicators
To succeed, we will:
- increase the supply and availability of quality housing within people’s means
- improve the quality, environmental sustainability, appropriateness and accessibility of social housing
- increase housing stability for people experiencing or at risk of rough sleeping, homelessness, and other insecure housing arrangements
- increase financial ability to access and maintain housing and utility services
- increase Aboriginal residents’ connection to community, culture and place
- increase the proportion of Aboriginal people living in appropriately sized (not overcrowded) housing
- improve transitions to independent living arrangements.
Objective 4 initiatives
To meet this objective, we will:
- continue to increase the supply and quality of housing options for Victorians. This includes progressing the $6.3 billion Big Housing Build and Regional Housing Fund and other large capital programs
- improve the public housing system to ensure quality service and deliver better and more comfortable homes
- continue to progress Australia's biggest ever urban renewal project – the High-Rise Redevelopment Project
- improve tailored housing support for people and families at risk of homelessness, including by:
- continuing to roll out proven services to address homelessness, with a focus on housing first
- strengthening support and short-term accommodation that enables victim survivors of family violence to stay at home safely or find suitable housing
- continuing to work with the sector and people with lived and living experience to better structure and deliver homelessness services to meet the needs of people seeking homelessness, assistance and reforming the homelessness response to ensure homelessness is rare, brief and that supports are flexible, tailored and culturally safe.
- evolve our housing management and resident tools
provide high-quality, safe and secure specialist disability accommodation that enables choice and control for residents.