Building social value into affordable housing

Bureaucrats, community housing providers, developers, service providers and architects are scrambling feverishly to drastically expand the pipeline of social housing projects in Victoria amid a chronic shortage of affordable housing.

The state government’s $A5.3 billion Big Housing Build is throwing unprecedented resources at a deep and persistent problem and the housing sector is rising to the challenge of setting shovels in the soil for new projects before 2021 ends.

This is positive. But housing doesn’t just need to exist, it needs to be good.