Wednesday, 14 August 2024

Melbourne electorate

Ellen SANDELL (Melbourne) (14:49): (756) My question is to the Minister for Housing. Why has Victorian Labor signed a $100 million demolition contract with John Holland to demolish the public housing towers in Flemington and in North Melbourne in my electorate before there are any plans for what will replace these towers or any certainty for residents on where they will go? We are in a housing crisis, and instead of building more public housing Victorian Labor are bulldozing all 44 ‍public housing towers across Melbourne, with no plans to build any public housing on these sites and the majority of those sites to be privatised. Now it seems Labor has signed a demolition contract in order to pursue legal action against the residents, force evictions and make it easier to privatise these sites. I am calling for a moratorium on any evictions from public housing towers. It is disgraceful that Labor is demolishing public housing when we are in the middle of a housing crisis.