Tuesday, 15 August 2023

Big Housing Build

Sheena WATT (Northern Metropolitan) (16:29): (386) I rise to acknowledge the steps our government has taken to address the pressing housing challenges across our state. My adjournment is directed to the Minister for Housing, the Honourable Colin Brooks in the other place. I ask him to come and see firsthand the incredible work being done there in North Melbourne.

Our government has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to tackling the housing challenges head-on through policy and a steadfast dedication to finding solutions, and that work has already begun. The momentum is positive, and you can feel it – even so recently as this morning, as the Premier joined the housing minister to see fantastic new projects here in the Southern Metropolitan Region, which was a beautiful event joined by member for Southern Metropolitan John Berger. By engaging with local communities – and Mr Berger knows this – stakeholders and beneficiaries of the initiatives, including beautiful folks who now have gorgeous new homes, can witness the very real impacts of our Big Housing Build.

This visit I hope will not only affirm and reaffirm our commitment to addressing the housing challenges but also amplify some stories worth hearing about people that have overcome enormous challenges to now find a safe, secure and affordable home thanks to the Andrews Labor government’s Big Housing Build. There will be some stories that you will hear. Above all the North Melbourne community have been very open and very warm to the incredible works being done. Can I just say I am sure the minister is going to have an almighty good time meeting the good folks of North Melbourne and seeing the new campus of North Melbourne Primary School right next door, because we are united with a shared vision for a place in Victoria where everybody has a home, and I look forward to him joining me in the great northern suburbs.