Regional Victoria has a central role in the State’s housing future, but it cannot deliver that role under policy settings designed for metropolitan Melbourne.

The State’s regional housing targets require a strategic approach that recognises how regional markets actually work. Housing delivery in regional settings depends on realistic growth planning, based on accurate, region-specific assessments of development-ready land, appropriate funding and delivery of critical enabling infrastructure, timely planning approvals, a capable workforce and a focus on supporting the delivery of housing typologies that fit regional market demand.

Our $27 billion development industry is central to meeting that challenge. Yet at a time of unprecedented demand, the sector faces the harshest conditions in a generation – weak economic growth, crushing property taxes, planning and regulatory complexity, slow land release and rising construction costs.

This platform sets out 10 reforms for the 2026 State Election, organised around three priorities: planning for regional growth properly, prioritising enabling infrastructure that unlocks new homes; and removing the roadblocks that are preventing projects moving from planning to delivery.

These reforms are grounded in the experience of the industry delivering housing across regional Victoria. They are practical, targeted and designed to help government, councils and industry work together to deliver the homes regional communities need.