Tuesday,13 August 2024

Emma KEALY (Lowan) (14:51): (742) My constituency question is for the Minister for Housing on behalf of people waiting for public housing in the Wimmera area. In September 2021 the then housing minister put out a media release stating that ‘Shovels will be in the ground by the end of the year’ in relation to new housing in Horsham. In Parliament in mid-September 2021 the minister further stated that 31 homes would be built in Horsham. However, it was not until June 2022 that the government acquired 50 Stawell Road, Horsham. This is now of course sitting vacant two years later. It is overgrown with grass and there is security fencing around it, but it certainly has not seen the shovel-ready project that was promised by Labor back in 2021. So I ask the minister: when will the government act to develop the land at 50 Stawell Road as public housing, rather than my people waiting for years for public housing in the local area?