The Allan and Albanese governments are facing plunging confidence from voters in their ability to remedy the housing crisis. Picture: NewsWire/ David Crosling.
Victorians’ confidence in the future of the state’s housing is plunging with growing concerns the Allan government is not up to the task of remedying the affordability crisis.
Young Victorians are revealing they are making “impossible decisions” not to have a family because “they can’t find somewhere to live” and new survey data shows the wider community doesn’t believe the Allan government is treating housing as the crisis it is.
The state has the nation’s lowest approval of the mix of housing being built and recorded the nation’s biggest drop in confidence that they will still be in their home next year.
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The latest Amplify Home Truths scorecard found three in every four Victorians believe the state is making very little to no progress in remedying the crisis, the worst result in the country.
Community confidence in getting enough homes built to address the state’s housing issues declined from 40 per cent to 35 per cent in the final three months of 2025.
Since the start of a National Housing Accord plan to build 1.2 million homes nationwide, Victoria has built 69,840, about 87.9 per cent of what it needed to hit its targets in that time.
Amplify research shows the share of Australians no longer confident in remaining in their home for the next year — Victorians were the most worried.
Amplify is a not-for-profit research firm and community-led think tank created by Seek founder Paul Bassat and with former AFL head honcho Gill McLachlan on the board, and is forecasting the state will build 276,847 new homes by mid 2029 — a 38,185 shortfall of the 315,033 needed.
Chief executive Georgina Harrisson said falling community confidence in the government’s handling of the housing crisis was being driven by people feeling “ridden over, rather than a part of reforms” and the other was growing concern about poor fund management on major projects.
Allegations of $15bn going from major project funds to criminals have emerged following the survey, as well as an interest hike, and Ms Harrison said confidence in the government would now be even lower as a result.
She revealed a Victorian had told them their surveys had included one Victorian who had made the “impossible decision not to have a family, because I can’t find somewhere to live”.
Three quarters of Victorians feel little to no progress has been made to increase the number of homes being built in the past three months.
Their research also showed almost one in five think there has been no progress in addressing housing reforms needed to build more homes, and a further 56.3 per cent see very little improvement — the worst score in the country.
More than 70 per cent feel it is either very or somewhat unlikely enough homes will be built to hit the state’s target in the next few years.
A hefty 62 per cent did not trust the government to make the right policy moves to improve housing availability.
While steps to improve planning outcomes in designated development zones were good, Ms Harrison said additional work to cut red tape in other areas would be important in the future — as would more community consultation, and being seen to be treating housing as the crisis issue Victorians believe it is.
More of a focus on modular building and 3D printing homes would also be important.
Georgina Harrison believes without more changes from the Victorian government, they risk being held accountable at the next election. Picture: Gaye Gerard.
“The ultimate accountability will come at the state election and these figures should be concerning for the Victorian government,” she said.
“Around the country trust is at rock bottom, but Victoria is particularly low and falling.”
Just over 20 per cent of Victorians surveyed were not confident they would be able to stay in their home for the next year.
Real Estate Institute of Australia president Jacob Caine has participated in past events with Amplify and said without public support the government couldn’t deliver on its ambitions.
“The reality is that solving the housing crisis requires a whole of society buy in,” Mr Caine said.
“When you have governments that attempt to ram through projects and initiatives without the support of industry … when you have a public that hasn’t bought into that, that will stymie or oppose the progress of these initiatives at any given opportunity, because they haven’t been consulted with, then the government will still fail to deliver on their ambitions.”
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