Tuesday, 28 November 2023

Richmond electorate

Gabrielle DE VIETRI (Richmond) (14:47): (446) My question is for the Minister for Housing. In the lead-up to the election Labor promised air conditioning in all public homes, but a year later residents in my electorate are yet to see any sign of air conditioning. Elderly residents in Richmond have been told to buy their own units and Homes Victoria will install them – all this during a cost-of-living crisis and in the lead-up to an El Niño summer. Richmond has the largest proportion of public housing residents in Victoria, and these residents have the right to a safe and comfortable home – and yet Labor is treating them like second-class residents. My constituents are worried that this initiative has been scrapped in Labor’s deal to demolish public housing and sell off the land to private developers. Minister, how many summers will public housing residents in Clifton Hill, Collingwood, Fitzroy and Richmond have to wait before they can cool their homes?