Infrastructure Victoria has called out the Allan Labor Government for attempting to fix the housing crisis they created with big property taxes, while not planning for adequate infrastructure in growing suburbs.
Families dream of owning a first home, with adequate infrastructure and services, but the report confirms that as Victoria has grown, the Labor Government has failed families in our growing suburbs.
The report also calls out the massive property taxes collected by Labor, which are blunt instruments constraining the market.
Concerningly however, the report leans into the Labor Government’s push for centralizing planning control in Victoria like mandating housing targets without consultation with Councils, which reduces dwelling quality and forces approval of substandard homes.
Shadow Minister for Planning, James Newbury, said: “Infrastructure Victoria has called out the Labor Government as the architects of the Victoria’s housing policy failures and notes that big taxes won’t fix the problems they created.
“The Liberals and Nationals will also push back on centralised government-led interventions. We will always support community-led solutions, allowing for new developments without unlimited residential densification, which undermines the character of our suburbs.”
Shadow Minister for Home Ownership and Housing Affordability and Shadow Minister for Outer Suburban Growth, Evan Mulholland, said: “Labor should be building communities, instead they’re building traffic-congested housing estates, devoid of the necessary infrastructure, because of a failure to invest in growth areas.
“We have established growth suburbs still running on V/Line trains because Jacinta Allan cancelled the electrification of the Melton and Wyndham Vale train lines and hasn’t invested in public transport and community infrastructure in these areas.”
