The French academic is undeterred and believes it might just be the essential, urgent prescription needed to fix Melbourne’s housing crisis. “For this reason the 15-minute city is an amazing opportunity for transforming radically this situation.” The idea is that a network of 15-minute cities provides inhabitants with easy access to everything they need. “The housing crisis is not only in the Victorian state, the question of the housing crisis is a worldwide crisis,” Moreno says. One Nation’s new Victorian leader, Warren Pickering, is a self-described conspiracy theorist and critic of 15-minute cities.