Staff and home owners were at each other's throats as a state insurance scheme struggled with "unprecedented" demand after a construction giant went bust.
Legal minds, engineers and residents have renewed their fight to tear down plans to demolish and rebuild a city's entire stock of public housing towers.
Victims of dodgy builders have been promised easier access to a state-operated insurance scheme to fix shoddy work under a consumer law shake-up.
Jacinta Allan is pushing forward plans to turn the state into a townhouse capital, with reforms blocking neighbours from appealing against three storey developments.
The Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission has laid more charges as part of its investigation into alleged financial gains linked to builder registrations signed off by the Victorian Building Authority.
Airbnb owners and users face a double tax whammy in Victoria after the government introduced a bill to parliament to impose a 7.5 per cent user-pays levy on short-stay platforms such as Airbnb and Stayz.
Draft plans for the initial 10 suburban centres - outlined in the Victorian government's 2023 housing statement - have been unveiled with Premier Jacinta Allan who claimed they will suit local communities.
Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto has used a speech to party faithful to pitch a crackdown on cultural heritage process delays to speed up housing builds.
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