What Housing Crisis?

REBECCA LLOYD-JONES

Through Permit Pending and Site Intel, she analyses the forces shaping residential development in real time - from planning policy and interest rates through to construction costs, infrastructure pressure, feasibility and delivery risk - translating complex market signals into grounded, practical development intelligence.

Victoria’s new VC282 planning amendment fast-tracks single and small second dwellings, but will it solve the housing crisis? This week’s Permit Pending digs into housing targets, Melbourne’s shifting commercial landscape, economic warning signs, and the design solutions we should be building now.

Housing targets? Fantasy.
Rents? Up.
Real incomes? Down.
And a quiet planning amendment just changed the game.

This week in Permit Pending:

Why VC282 will speed up approvals — and why it won’t fix the housing crisis unless we demand better design.
Melbourne’s pubs, plots, and prime sites shifting from beer taps to building cranes.
The household debt load that’s killing the economy.
Gas madness, EV trouble, and why “productivity” won’t save us.
The architects and projects that actually show how we could build more, better.

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What Housing Crisis?

REBECCA LLOYD-JONES

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