Housing: motions

The question put

That this house: (1) notes that: (a) the Victorian Labor government has recently signed a $100 million contract with John Holland for the demolition of five public housing towers including three in North Melbourne and Flemington; (b) hundreds of residents remain living at these three public housing tower sites, many of whom do not want to leave their homes and communities; (2) acknowledges that the demolition contracts have been signed without residents receiving any commitment from the government about their right of return to public housing; (3) recognises that Labor: (a) has signed these demolition contracts without any plan for what happens next or any guarantee that public housing will be rebuilt at each site, in order to forcibly evict residents from their homes using a legal pathway; (b) has used this tactic to evict public housing residents before, including at Barak Beacon where residents fought the government to remain in their homes but were eventually evicted; (c) is treating public housing residents in these high-rise estates with contempt which has left many residents feeling deeply distressed about their future; (4) notes with concern residents’ reports that they hav