I will advocate for Casey to be front and centre in the housing conversation - with community engagement to identify locations to achieve more diverse housing - units, townhouses, apartments which are close to the services, public transport and facilities people need.

The people of Casey love living where we live and they want to stay here throughout all the different stages of life from being a kid, becoming a young person, studying, falling in love, finding a home to live in, working hard, raising a family, having fun, community volunteering, retiring, being a grey nomad and then getting the care when you need it most to live and die well.

Casey does not have the quantity and diversity of housing choices for every stage of life. My 23-year-old daughter can't afford to buy a house with the options very limited, either a knock-down fixer upper, a former drug den, a unit with damp, or it's too expensive. I've also heard from people that options to downsize are few and far between when you no longer have time, money and energy to look after a large garden or acreage, or the kids have flown the nest, and the house is just too big and too much cleaning.

We also have lots of people in Casey that are homeless, who do not have secure and safe housing to return to each night. People are living in tents in the back of the block, in a caravan parked in a friend's paddock, couch-surfing, sleeping in cars, under rail bridges, on park benches.