Council has prepared a Housing Diversity Strategy (Strategy) to meet the growing and changing housing needs of its community and deliver upon our community’s desire for more well located, diverse and affordable housing options in Hume’s established areas. Hume’s population is anticipated to grow by more than 130,000 people in the next 20 years. Whilst much of the housing to meet this growth is set to occur in our new suburbs and estates, some of the housing will occur in our established areas. Data shows that the fastest growing populations in our existing suburbs are couples without children and lone person households, but the housing market continues to deliver larger housing stock of three or more bedrooms. Just 10% of current housing in Hume is one and two bedrooms compared to 30% in Greater Melbourne