Will Victorian Labor discard its disastrous plan to demolish all 44 public housing towers in Victoria? Gabrielle de Vietri asks the Premier.
Transcript: My question is for the Premier. Before leaving, the former Premier announced that the Victorian Labor government would demolish all 44 of our public housing towers, displacing thousands and thousands of residents and sending this housing crisis into overdrive. With a new leadership team in place, will the Premier now wind back this disastrous plan to demolish and privatise public housing and instead build public housing, not private housing, on public land?
[Premier Jacinta Allen: No]
Gabrielle: Premier, just yesterday the new housing minister confirmed that 95 per cent of the additional development on this land will be given over to private developers for expensive private development and that by 2051, once this plan is complete, we will only have an additional 440 social homes. That is 15 social homes per year until 2051 when right now there are 125,000 people on the public housing waiting list desperate for a home – and that number is growing every year. Any plan that starts with the wholesale demolition of 6700 public homes in a housing crisis is bound to make that crisis worse. Premier, in what world is this an appropriate response to the housing crisis?
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