Gabrielle DE VIETRI (Richmond) (13:38): Imagine your landlord calling you 10 times a day or showing up at your doorstep unannounced to bully you into leaving your home. That is what public housing residents in Victoria are being subjected to by this Labor government. Under this disastrous plan to demolish and privatise all of Victoria’s public housing towers, residents have told us that they have been bullied and harassed into so-called voluntary relocation. Residents have been pressured to sign documents at their doorstep without access to lawyers or interpreters, been given verbal promises that were not reflected in the documents that they were signing and been made to feel like they would be homeless or out of pocket if they did not agree to moving. A parliamentary inquiry found that this government had engaged in significant coercive and misleading practices to relocate residents. Not only is this Labor government kicking residents out of the homes that they have spent their lives in, it is making the housing crisis worse for everybody, and it is doing it in a deeply harmful and misleading way. They seem to think that they are beyond accountability. That is why the Greens this week are referring the government’s treatment of public housing residents to the Ombudsman, because public housing residents deserve dignity and respect as much as they deserve a safe and affordable home.