Housing is one of the biggest challenges we face.
We need more homes—and we need many more affordable homes for first home buyers.
We’ve seen plenty of new medium density housing being built in the Hawthorn electorate, but much of this is priced out of reach for first home buyers. We need to stop the government from allowing developers to evade their responsibility to provide a proportion of affordable housing in new developments.
People are right to worry about losing what they love about their neighbourhood.
The answer isn’t overdevelopment or doing nothing—it’s thoughtful, well-designed growth. It’s development that is done WITH communities not TO communities.
That means more affordable housing near transport, better design standards, and protecting the character and green spaces that make Hawthorn special.
For Hawthorn: More affordable homes, done well—so the community we love is strengthened, not lost.