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. This includes:
- continuing to roll out proven services to address homelessness, with a focus on housing first and maintaining tenancies
- 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
- reforming the homelessness response with flexible, tailored and culturally safe supports that ensure homelessness is rare and brief.
- evolve our housing management and resident tools
- provide high-quality, safe and secure specialist disability accommodation that enables choice and control for residents.