UPDATE ON PUBLIC HOUSING IN MELBOURNE

Gabrielle stands in front of the Fitzroy public housing towers

By Cara Eyers What’s Happening? A week before his resignation, then-Premier Dan Andrews announced a sweeping set of reforms to public housing. These plans will shift public land into private hands, and relocate people at the largest scale in our state’s history. With no consultation, communication or prior notice given to the residents. Despite this […]

Save Public Housing: Fitzroy BBQ

A group of residents and campaigners with Gabrielle outside public housing towers

After the Greens reached more than 2000 signatures on their petition to stop the demolition of public housing, they held a BBQ at Atherton Gardens (in Fitzroy) to celebrate with residents

Build Public Housing at Fitzroy Gasworks

Gabrielle looking out over the Fitzroy Gasworks building site

I rise to grieve Victorian Labor’s complete and utter failure to address the housing crisis, leaving so many without a roof over their heads while funnelling public money and public land into developers’ pockets.

Why are so many public homes empty?

Richmond public housing tower with sun

Gabrielle de Vietri asks the Victorian Government why there are so many empty public homes in a housing crisis. Transcript: Right now in my electorate of Richmond, dozens of newly-refurbished public homes in the Atherton Gardens, Collingwood and North Richmond public housing towers are sitting empty. Some residents have told me that some of those […]