Tuesday, 2 August 2022

Tarneit electorate

Ms CONNOLLY (Tarneit) (14:39): (6449) My question is for the Minister for Housing. Our communities in the western suburbs of Melbourne know the difference that social housing can make to change lives for the better. Everybody deserves to sleep with a roof over their head and the warm comforts of safe and secure housing, and I am pleased to know that this is something reflected by our government in its commitment to build new social housing infrastructure right across Victoria. In 2020 our government’s budget allocated $5.3 billion towards a historic spend on building over 12 000 new social housing units across Victoria. For vulnerable people in communities like mine this news is extremely welcome. Having worked with many of my colleagues in the west on the issues of homelessness and housing affordability, it was wonderful news when we announced that Wyndham would be a priority build area for these new houses. Just last week in metro Melbourne we hit our halfway milestone, with more than 6800 homes built across our wonderful city. So my question for the minister is this: how many new social housing units have been built in the Wyndham municipality as part of this investment?