The Victorian Greens have secured a housing \u2018Head of Power\u2019 to legally mandate property developers include public, community and affordable housing in new developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greens say that Labor now has \u201cno excuses\u201d not to force developers to contribute their fair share of housing that people can actually afford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the first time, the Greens amendment creates a clear legal power for councils and the Planning Minister to require public, community and affordable housing when big new developments are approved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greens welcome the government\u2019s support for their amendment which was secured as part of the Greens negotiations on the Planning Amendment Bill 2025 at the end of last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greens amendment has been widely supported by housing advocates who have been calling for the change for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It passed Parliament last night officially solidifying the new power into the law and the Greens say that now Labor must use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Victorian Greens spokesperson for Planning, Dr Sarah Mansfield said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe head of power will make sure we\u2019re building homes people can actually afford, now Labor has to use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPrivate property developers aren\u2019t thinking about affordability, they\u2019re thinking about profit and for too long, Labor\u2019s given them all the power over what gets built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhile renters are being smashed, young people are locked out and the public housing waitlist is exploding, Labor\u2019s got no excuse to give property developers special treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNow the only thing stopping new developments from including public, community and affordable housing is Labor.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Victorian Greens have secured a housing \u2018Head of Power\u2019 to legally mandate property developers include public, community and affordable housing in new developments. The Greens say that Labor now has \u201cno excuses\u201d not to force developers to contribute their fair share of housing that people can actually afford. For the first time, the Greens … Continue reading “VICTORIAN GREENS SECURE LAWS TO FORCE PROPERTY DEVELOPERS TO CONTRIBUTE PUBLIC, COMMUNITY & AFFORDABLE HOUSING”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37279,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37278\/revisions\/37279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}