Victoria Street, Flemington

The Victoria Street redevelopment replaced 198 older-style social homes with 359 new homes, including 240 social and 119 affordable rental homes. These homes have been built to high standards, with a focus on modern living, energy efficiency and sustainability.  

The new homes at Victoria Street include a mix of one-, 2- 3- and 4-bedroom options to better meet the needs of different families and households on the Victorian Housing Register.

• Located only 5 km from Melbourne’s city centre within the City of Moonee Valley, the Victoria Street, Flemington housing site offers renters easy access to schools, transport, jobs, community services, shops and local destinations including Debney’s Park and Racecourse Road. 
• A mix of one -, 2-, 3- and 4-bedroom homes to better meet housing demand in Victoria. 
• A 21% uplift in social housing at the site. 
• All homes have a 5-star Green Star rating and 7-star NatHERS average rating making them more comfortable and easier to heat and cool. 
• Quality green open spaces including landscaped gardens, parks and children’s nature play. 
• At least 5% of new homes at the site are fully accessible to people with a disability. 
• On-site tenancy support and management. 
• New and improved pedestrian and cycling pathways. 

We carried out several phases of community consultation for the Victoria Street redevelopment from 2016 to 2021. 

In 2021, we engaged the community, stakeholders, and renters to provide feedback on the proposed redevelopment, which helped shape the final plans for the project. 

For more information about how we engaged the community and to download the consultation report(s) for this project, please visit our Engage Victoria webpage . 

Social housing  

Social housing is an umbrella term that includes both public housing and community housing. It is available to eligible people on the Victorian Housing Register.   

Public housing  

Public housing is owned and managed by Homes Victoria. The state government provides public housing to eligible Victorians including:  

• people who are unemployed  
• people on low incomes  
• people living with a disability or a mental illness or who are at risk of homelessness  
• people escaping family violence.  

Community housing  

Community housing is managed by community housing organisations.   

Community housing organisations are highly regulated, not-for-profit housing providers that specialise in housing a diverse range of renters.   

Market housing  

Market housing refers to homes that are available for rent at prices set by the current housing market. These homes are not government subsidised.   

The cost of market housing depends on factors like where they are located, how many people want them, and their quality, and features.  

A Ground Lease Model is a partnership approach to delivering social housing. Under the model,  Homes Victoria leases land to a consortium to finance, plan, build, manage and maintain housing for a 40 year period. After the 40 years, the land and all homes is returned to public ownership. This means there is no sale of public land.

Building Communities is a not-for-profit consortium that Homes Victoria appointed to deliver new homes at the Bangs Street, Prahran housing site. 

The Building Communities consortium includes ICON as the builder, and Community Housing (Vic) Limited as the community housing provider.