Thursday, 4 August 2022

Eastern Victoria Region

Ms BATH (Eastern Victoria) (12:48): (1895) My question is to the Minister for Housing. It is Homelessness Week this week, and as a result I had a very comprehensive conversation with local sector providers Chris McNamara and Mitchell Burney, and they raised a huge number of issues in this sector. One in particular is about the lack of intake officers and caseworkers in Gippsland in general, in my electorate. The other one was in relation to the big build. Apparently there are supposed to be 88 social housing blocks and houses built in Gippsland, but to date we do not know where they will be and when they will be built. So my question on behalf of the homelessness sector is: where will these houses be built and when will they be built? Also, the money is about to run out in this delivery; when will we actually get some more? Because 88 sincerely is insufficient.