As the public housing waiting list continues to grow, locals in one suburb are perplexed by vacant state-owned homes in their area.
There are 48,620 people seeking social housing on the Victorian Housing Register, according to latest government figures from March 31, 2024.At least nine state government-owned houses are sitting empty in a single suburb in Melbourne’s inner west in the midst of the state’s worst housing crisis in decades and years after complaints were raised about empty houses in the area.
The 53-year-old lives in a private rental in Braybrook despite having her case escalated four years ago for priority public housing due to her disability and the risk posed to her safety by family violence. She said her rental was old, dilapidated and riddled with asbestos. But Cuzzupe questioned why it had taken almost a year for any of the homes in Braybrook to be leased out to people who were in desperate need of a new home.State government data shows that at March 31 this year, there were 48,620 applicants seeking public or community housing on the Victorian Housing Register.visited Braybrook last week, there were nine vacant properties, all owned by the Victorian government.
The number of households that moved into social housing was 5553 in the 2021-22 financial year and 7152 in the 2022-23 financial year, according to the state government.
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