City Backs Plan for Mandatory Affordable Housing
Developers face punishment for failing to include affordable homes in new Melbourne projects as the city acts to ease its worsening housing crisis.
Everybody had a right to adequate housing, Cr Olivia Ball told a meeting at which the City of Melbourne’s Future Melbourne Committee endorsed an 11-point plan to tackle affordable housing in the city, including making it compulsory in new developments.
“It’s a basic minimum standard that we as a civil society are willing to accept for every other person and our species,” Ball said.
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