Melbourne electorate
Ms SANDELL (Melbourne) (14:47): (6212) My question today is to the Minister for Housing and relates to the Carlton public housing estates in my electorate. While the estates in Flemington and North Melbourne are currently benefiting from the Paving the Way Forward program, residents in the Carlton towers have been left out because they were not subject to the hard lockdown of 2020. Yet Carlton faces many of the same issues, such as poor communication between the housing office and residents, poor maintenance, community facilities still closed from COVID and serious safety issues raised over and over again by residents with no resolution. Residents are not asking for much, just someone in government—their landlord—to listen to their ideas about how to make their homes safer for everyone and to actually take some action. My question is: will the minister expand the Paving the Way Forward program to the Carlton estate as well as address the longstanding safety concerns that have been raised multiple times with his office by both me and residents?