By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
CASEY Council is concerned for the future of public housing in the municipality, with the region’s population expected to grow exponentially over the next 25 years.
An officers’ report on the council’s ‘Inclusionary Housing Program’ is included in this week’s council agenda, with a recommendation being put forward to keep pushing the State and Federal governments in relation to social housing.
The report urges council to “consider the gap in supply of social and affordable housing” in Casey.
The council will appeal to the State Government via a submission to the Plan Melbourne Refresh, and support an “inclusion rezoning on affordable and diverse housing”.
It comes after council moved in August to write to Planning Minister Richard Wynne for an update on the planned policy changes “to increase and improve affordable and diverse housing”.
In 2014 a volunteer carer from the Andrews Centre in Endeavour Hills, Judy Martin, told Star News that Casey suffered from a “chronic shortage” of public housing.
