Housing is one of the most vital elements of our community. Moonee Valley City Council is committed to creating a fair city that values diversity, where everyone feels safe, is included, is healthy and has access to services and housing.

Moonee Valley City Council is preparing a housing strategy to ensure the diverse housing needs of the community can be met. The strategy will include consideration of social and affordable housing and homelessness, and ways to ensure future growth is directed to appropriate locations supported by public transport, tree canopy and open space, shops and services.

Last year, Council's Community Advisory Panel came together to discuss what ‘a city with housing for all’ looks like. The Panel gave us 22 recommendations which will be used to inform our housing strategy.

From 10 February until 16 March 2025 we sought feedback from the broader community on housing and what’s important to community about neighbourhood design. During this time, we also connected with the community through Council’s Community Reference Groups, to make sure voices from different sections of our community are heard.

Thank you to everyone who completed our survey, had their say in person at the Moonee Valley Festival and provided input via our reference groups. We are currently collating your feedback for Council and will update you on next steps.

What will we do with this information?

We’ll consider all responses we receive and use them to help us prepare a draft housing strategy. The draft housing strategy will be presented to a Council meeting later this year for consultation. We’ll then bring the draft housing strategy back to community, so this isn’t your last opportunity to provide feedback.

  • Population and housing

    In the City of Moonee Valley, there are 126,500 people living in approximately 55,000 homes.

  • Housing types

    • Separate houses: 28,848
    • Flats or apartments: 9,940
    • Semi-detached, row, and terrace houses: 16,025

  • Public housing needs

    6,237 households on the Victorian Housing Register are seeking public housing in the Moonee Valley area.

  • Private rental affordability

    In March 2024, 1.3% of new private rentals were affordable for lower-income households.

  • Rental stress in Moonee Valley

    Rental stress means that people pay more than 30% of their income on rent. In Moonee Valley, those experiencing rental stress are:

    • 1 in 3 moderate income renters
    • 1 in 3 low income renters
    • 3 in 4 very low income renters

  • Housing tenure

    In Moonee Valley:

    • 34% of homes are owned outright
    • 31% of homes have a mortgage
    • 32% of homes are rented
    • 3% of homes are other/not stated

Stage 1 Consultation

Last year, Council's Community Advisory Panel came together to consider what ‘a city with housing for all’ looks like.

The panel made 22 recommendations to Council, which are being used to inform our housing strategy. Their recommendations can be found here.

Stage 2 Consultation

From 10 February until 16 March 2025 we sought feedback from the broader community on housing and what’s important to community about neighbourhood design.

During this time, we also connected with the community through Council’s Community Reference Groups, to make sure voices from different sections of our community are heard.

Thank you to everyone who completed our survey, had their say in person at the Moonee Valley Festival and provided input via our reference groups. We are currently collating your feedback for Council and will update you on next steps.