00:00A new target to address the challenge on the horizon.
00:06Good quality housing close to public transport services and jobs.
00:12Council areas across Victoria have been given new housing targets to boost supply over the
00:17next 30 years.
00:19Victoria needs to build 2 million homes by 2051 to accommodate a rapidly growing population
00:26And the Premier says some councils need to start pulling their weight.
00:30Locking up particular suburbs because your political preference is to not build homes
00:35in those suburbs, that's not an answer.
00:38Under the plan, Mitchell Shire will see the largest increase in the number of dwellings
00:42by 2051, rising more than 300 per cent.
00:46Melton is set to increase by 190 per cent and housing in Moorable and Golden Plains
00:53in the state's south-west will also explode.
00:57Those outer growth areas are currently picking up all of the slack, that's not sustainable.
01:01Almost 140,000 new homes are targeted for the Geelong region over the next three decades.
01:08While inner-city Melbourne hasn't escaped the growth targets, with stand-alone houses
01:13making way for developments.
01:15What we need to see across Melbourne is an increase in density gently in each area.
01:20We're not talking about building towering blocks next to ordinary people's houses, but
01:26in fact having that gentle increase of townhouses and smaller apartment blocks.
01:31When I think about those conversations, I know they're not going to be easy ones.
01:35I know they're going to be ones that are going to require people to compromise and think
01:38about change.
01:39Final targets for each council will be released by the end of the year.
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