Melbourne electorate
Ellen SANDELL (Melbourne) (14:57): (716) My question is to the Labor Premier. Why are nearly 100,000 homes, including many public homes in my electorate, empty right now across Victoria when we are in a housing crisis? A recent report shows that there are nearly 100,000 homes sitting empty across Victoria. Another report found that there are thousands of public homes – that is, homes that are managed and owned by the Labor government – also empty, many empty for over a year, and that includes many homes in the North Melbourne and Kensington public housing towers in my electorate. Why is Labor keeping these homes empty when we are in a housing crisis? Is it because Labor wants to run public housing into the ground so the towers are easier to demolish? Does Labor want to keep people out of these public housing towers so there is less resistance to its plan to demolish and privatise the public housing estates? Labor leaving public homes empty in the worst housing crisis that we have had in decades is absolutely a disgrace.