Richmond electorate
Gabrielle DE VIETRI (Richmond) (14:45): (576) My question is for the Minister for Housing. There are over 125,000 Victorians on the public housing waiting list right now, so can the minister please tell me why across many of our public housing towers in Richmond, Fitzroy and Collingwood at least one in every 10 apartments is empty. On one floor in a building in Richmond, six out of 10 apartments are empty, and they have been for at least eight months. I have been to all 12 of our public housing towers in my electorate, and I would estimate the vacancy rate in some of our public housing towers to be at 15 per cent. That is when the private vacancy rate is now below 1 per cent and so many people are desperate for a home. Labor’s housing system is so broken that we cannot even get people into empty homes in the middle of a housing crisis. It is a disgrace.