The Victorian Greens have welcomed the Court of Appeal\u2019s decision protecting more than 30 \u201chold-out\u201d households in North Melbourne and Flemington from eviction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Victorian Greens say that public housing residents shouldn\u2019t be in this position in the first place. The injunction is another consequence of Labor\u2019s disastrous plan which residents, activists, lawyers and the Greens have successfully delayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Allan Labor Government has infamously refused to produce any documentation to justify the decision to demolish the towers, despite repeated requests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many residents say they have not been offered suitable homes as options for relocation, with a parliamentary inquiry hearing that Homes Victoria relocations officers had engaged in coercive and misleading practices when engaging with residents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The same inquiry recommended that all demolitions be halted unless Labor provides documents to justify the demolition and privatisation of each building – which the Allan Labor Government has yet to respond to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Victorian Greens housing spokesperson, Gabrielle de Vietri:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cResidents shouldn\u2019t be in this position in the first place. It shouldn\u2019t be up to the residents holding out for their home, Labor shouldn\u2019t be demolishing their home at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is just the latest in the laundry list of reasons that Labor\u2019s mass demolition and privatisation of public housing is a total disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFrom top to bottom, this plan has never stacked up, forcing people from their homes, replacing public housing with private apartments, and handing prime inner-city land to property developers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMake no mistake, the only people benefitting from this plan are the private property developers Labor\u2019s shaking hands with. Labor\u2019s putting corporate profits ahead of human lives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Victorian Greens have welcomed the Court of Appeal\u2019s decision protecting more than 30 \u201chold-out\u201d households in North Melbourne and Flemington from eviction. The Victorian Greens say that public housing residents shouldn\u2019t be in this position in the first place. The injunction is another consequence of Labor\u2019s disastrous plan which residents, activists, lawyers and the … Continue reading “Court favouring residents shows Labor shouldn\u2019t be demolishing their homes in the first place”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37273,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37272\/revisions\/37273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}