WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN DREAM? FOREMAN DEMANDS VICTORIA MAKE HOME OWNERSHIP POSSIBLE AGAIN
Family First Party
Jane Foreman - Family First Legislative Council Candidate
Key Facts:
KEY FACTS:
•Melbourne’s median house price has more than doubled over the past decade, making it one of the least affordable cities in the world relative to incomes.
•Family First policy: release more land, remove green and red tape, cut government-imposed levies on new builds.
•Victoria’s planning approval times are among the slowest in Australia, adding months and significant cost to housing supply.
•The Suburban Rail Loop is projected to cost up to $200 billion over its full build — funds that could have directly supported housing infrastructure for families.
•First-home buyer enquiries have declined sharply as borrowing capacity shrinks and deposit hurdles grow, cutting young families out of the market.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
31 May 2026
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN DREAM? FOREMAN DEMANDS VICTORIA MAKE HOME OWNERSHIP POSSIBLE AGAIN
A generation of Victorian families has been quietly locked out of home ownership while both major parties argue about density targets. Jane Foreman has a simpler answer: more land, less red tape, lower costs.
There was a time — not so long ago — when an ordinary Victorian family on an ordinary wage could save a deposit, buy a home, pay it off over twenty years, and build a life. That time is over. Home ownership in Melbourne has gone from an achievable goal for ordinary working families to a privilege for the wealthy — in a single generation. Young couples who do everything right are still locked out. And the Allan government’s answer is more bureaucracy, more planning overlays, and a Suburban Rail Loop that benefits nobody currently priced out of the market.
“I grew up in a family where owning your home was just what you did — it was the foundation of everything else. Security for your kids. A stake in your community. Something to pass on. I don’t want that to be a memory. I want it to be Victoria’s future again. And that’s exactly what Family First is fighting for.”
The policy solution is not complicated. Family First will:
Release more land on the urban fringe.
Cut the green and red tape that adds months and tens of thousands of dollars to every new build.
Reduce government-imposed levies and charges that are baked into every new home’s price tag before a single brick is laid.
The Allan government is treating housing as a revenue source, doubling down on high-density urban consolidation — an approach that pleases inner-city planners and apartment developers but has conspicuously failed to produce affordable housing for the families who need it most..
“More land. Less red tape. Lower costs. This is not rocket science — it is political will. And Family First has it.”
“The Allan government has made home ownership a privilege for the wealthy and condemned young families on ordinary incomes to rent forever. Family First will fight to change that — because every Victorian family deserves a home they can call their own.”
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About us:
About Family First
Family First exists to restore Australia by restoring the primacy of the family in public policy. This will be achieved through a grass roots political party which raises courageous voices in our nation’s parliaments. More details are available on our website: https://www.familyfirstparty.org.au/
