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Minister for Housing (Victoria) - Wikipedia

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Minister for Housing of Victoria
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Incumbent Harriet Shing since 2 October 2023
Department of Families, Fairness and Housing
Style	The Honourable
Member of	Parliament Executive council
Reports to	Premier
Nominator	Premier
Appointer	Governor on the recommendation of the Premier
Term length	At the governor's pleasure
Formation	2 October 1945
First holder	William Haworth

In the Victorian political system, the State Minister for Housing is a State Government cabinet position responsible for Housing. The Minister for Housing is responsible for the Office of Housing (formerly the Victorian Housing Commission); and is one of six state ministers responsible for the Victorian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH).

The Housing Commission of Victoria was established in 1938.^[1] Its stated purpose of improving existing housing and to provide adequate housing for people of limited means (public housing).^[2] The Commission ceased to exist in 1984, as it became the Office of Housing. Housing Commission remains the common colloquial term for public housing estates and developments in Victoria, particularly the inner city tower estates built in the late 1950s and 1960s by Liberal State Governments.

The Housing Commission towers were planned as a major capital work solution to urban ghettoisation. These 20-storey towers loom over many of the inner suburbs in Melbourne and are usually built in 2–6 tower configurations. Many blocks of occupied terrace and worker cottage style housing were cleared and towers of 10 apartments a floor built, surrounded by gardens and car parks. The future high property value of the former types of housing and the gentrification of inner urban areas was not foreseen. Opponents of these projects claimed that the towers were merely turning the slums upright. One of the more vocal anti-tower campaigners in the 1960s, Barry Pullen, later became a Minister for Housing in the Cain Labor Government. Crime and substance abuse problems on the estates have indeed fluctuated to high levels over the years, as different governments apply policies to renew the residential environments.

The Victorian Minister for Housing was at the centre of the Victorian land scandals of 1973–82.^[3]

The Victorian Minister for Housing is also responsible for homelessness and the Residential Tenancies Act (the laws governing domestic renting in Victoria).^[4] Today the Office of Housing is Victoria's largest landlord, and is responsible for around 73,000 properties (23,000+ in regional Victorian towns and rural communities, 7,000+ inner city high-rise flats, 40,000+ houses, units and flats across suburban Melbourne, 1,700+ rooming house rooms and 1,800 moveable units).

Victorian State Ministers for Housing

Order	Minister		Ministerial title	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
1	Sir William Haworth	Liberal	Minister of Housing	2 October 1945	21 November 1945	50 days	^[5]
2	Bill Barry	Labor	Minister of Housing	21 November 1945	20 November 1947	1 year, 364 days	^[6]
3	Sir Arthur Warner	Liberal Country	Minister in Charge of Housing	20 November 1947	27 June 1950	2 years, 219 days	^[7]
4	Ivan Swinburne	Country		27 June 1950	28 October 1952	2 years, 123 days	^[8]
5	William Dawnay-Mould	Liberal Country		28 October 1952	31 October 1952	3 days	^[9]
(4)	Ivan Swinburne	Country		1 October 1952	17 December 1952	77 days	^[10]
6	Tom Hayes	Labor		17 December 1952	31 March 1955	2 years, 104 days	^[11]
7	John Sheehan	Labor		31 March 1955	7 June 1955	68 days	^[11]
8	Sir Thomas Maltby	Liberal Country	Minister of Housing	7 June 1955	8 June 1955	1 day	^[12]
9	Sir Horace Petty	Liberal		8 June 1955	26 July 1961	6 years, 48 days
10	Lindsay Thompson			26 July 1961	9 May 1967	5 years, 287 days
11	Edward Meagher			9 May 1967	23 August 1972	5 years, 106 days
12	Vance Dickie			23 August 1972	31 March 1976	3 years, 282 days	^[13]
13	Geoff Hayes			31 March 1976	16 May 1979	3 years, 46 days	^[13]
14	Brian Dixon			16 May 1979	3 February 1981	1 year, 263 days	^[13]
15	Jeff Kennett			3 February 1981	8 April 1982	1 year, 64 days	^[13]^[14]
16	Ian Cathie	Labor		8 April 1982	2 May 1985	3 years, 24 days	^[15]
17	Frank Wilkes		Minister for Housing	2 May 1985	14 December 1987	2 years, 226 days
18	Bunna Walsh		Minister for Housing and Construction	14 December 1987	13 October 1988	304 days
19	Barry Pullen			13 October 1988	10 August 1990	1 year, 301 days
20	Tony Sheehan			10 August 1990	18 January 1991	161 days	^[16]
21	Andrew McCutcheon		Minister for Planning and Housing	18 January 1991	6 October 1992	1 year, 262 days	^[16]
22	Rob Knowles	Liberal	Minister for Housing	6 October 1992	3 April 1996	3 years, 180 days	^[17]
23	Ann Henderson	Liberal		3 April 1996	20 October 1999	3 years, 200 days	^[17]
24	Bronwyn Pike	Labor		20 October 1999	5 December 2002	3 years, 46 days	^[18]
25	Candy Broad			5 December 2002	1 December 2006	3 years, 361 days	^[18]
26	Richard Wynne			1 December 2006	2 December 2010	4 years, 0 days	^[18]^[19]
27	Wendy Lovell	Liberal		2 December 2010	4 December 2014	4 years, 2 days	^[20]^[21]
28	Martin Foley	Labor	Minister for Housing, Disability and Ageing	4 December 2014	29 November 2018	3 years, 360 days	^[22]
(26)	Richard Wynne		Minister for Housing	29 November 2018	27 June 2022	3 years, 210 days
29	Danny Pearson			27 June 2022	5 December 2022	161 days
30	Colin Brooks			5 December 2022	2 October 2023	301 days
31	Harriet Shing			2 October 2023	Incumbent	1 year, 61 days	^[23]