One regional council is putting up its own vacant farmland to develop affordable housing for key workers. It’s a model other councils could follow.
A council in south-west Victoria is putting up its own land to house workers and people struggling to find affordable rental homes in a sign of the state’s worsening housing crisis.
The city’s mayor, Ben Blain, said major employers, including the local hospital and meatworks, were struggling to attract workers from outside the area partly because there was nowhere for them to live.The units will come in a combination of one, two and three bedrooms. Half will be allocated to affordable housing, with rents capped at 75 per cent of the market rate, catering for people unable to break into the private rental market. The others will be for key workers.
Blain with the council’s strategic community planning and policy manager, Ashish Sitoula, at the vacant farmland.“I think we will see more of this from local governments in coming years,” he said. “We need to see more of it.” A spokeswoman for South West Healthcare said the service was working closely with new staff to help find housing and reduce barriers to people relocating to the region.
Although it’s uncommon, there have been instances in which councils have provided land for social housing. In 2020, Port Phillip Council in inner Melbourne provided a car park to build 46 apartments for people on low incomes.
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