Victoria’s confidence in Allan’s housing scheme plummeted during the crisis

Victorians’ confidence in the future of the state’s housing is growing amid growing concern that the Allan government is not up to the task of tackling the unaffordability crisis.

Young people in Victoria say they are making the “impossible decision” not to have a family because they “can’t find a place to live” and new survey data shows the public as a whole don’t believe the Allan government is treating housing as the problem it is.

The state has the lowest approval rating in the nation for the mix of homes under construction and recorded the biggest decline in the nation’s confidence that they will still own their home next year.

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The latest Amplify Home Truths card found three in four Victorians believe the state is doing too little to tackle the problem, the worst result in the country.

Public confidence in getting enough homes built to address the state’s housing crisis has dropped from 40 percent to 35 percent in the last three months of 2025.

Since the start of the National Housing Accord program to build 1.2 million homes across the country, Victoria has built 69,840, about 87.9 per cent of what it needed to achieve its goals at that time.

Amplicify research shows the share of Australians who are no longer confident about staying in their own home in the next year – Victorians were the most worried.

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Amplify is a not-for-profit research firm and community-led think tank set up by Seek founder Paul Bassat and former AFL head honcho Gill McLachlan on the board, and it predicts the state will build 276,847 new homes by mid-2029 – 38,185 short of the 315,033 needed

Chief executive Georgina Harrisson said the decline in public confidence in the government’s handling of the housing crisis was fueled by people feeling “tired, rather than part of the revolution” and another was growing concern over the mismanagement of funds in major schemes.

Allegations that $15bn of money from a major project went to criminals came after an investigation, along with a rise in interest, and Ms Harrison said trust in the government would plummet as a result.

He revealed that a Victorian told them that their research included one Victorian who made the “impossible decision not to have a family, because I can’t find a place to live”.

Three-quarters of Victorians feel little progress has been made to increase the number of homes built in the past three months.

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Their survey also showed almost one in five think there is no progress in addressing the housing reforms needed to build more homes, and another 56.3 percent see very little improvement – the worst score in the country.

More than 70 percent feel that either enough or almost no housing will be built to meet the government’s targets in the next few years.

62 percent did not trust the government to take appropriate measures to improve housing availability.

While steps to improve planning outcomes in designated development areas are good, Ms Harrison said more work to cut red tape in other areas will be important in the future – as will more community engagement, and seem to manage housing as a disaster issue they believe it is.

More focus on modular design and 3D printing houses would also be important.

Georgina Harrison believes that without further reforms from the Victorian government, they are at risk of being held accountable at the next election. Photo: Gaye Gerard.

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“Full accountability will come at the state election and these figures should affect the Victorian government,” she said.

“Nationwide trust is very low, but in Victoria it’s very low and going down.”

Just over 20 per cent of Victorians surveyed were not confident they would be able to stay in their own homes in the next year.

The president of the Real Estate Institute of Australia, Jacob Caine, has participated in previous events with Amplify and said that without the support of the public the government could not achieve its ambitions.

“The truth is that solving the housing crisis requires the whole community to buy themselves,” said Mr Caine.

“If you have a government that tries to do projects and programs without the support of the industry … if you have a public that has not bought that, that will hinder or oppose the progress of these programs at any opportunity, because it has not been discussed with them, the government will still fail to fulfill their wishes.”

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