The Victorian Greens say Labor has brought international shame on Victoria after the United Nations warned its plan to demolish and privatise all 44 of Melbourne\u2019s public housing towers could violate the human right to housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greens say the extraordinary UN intervention exposes Labor\u2019s housing agenda for what it is – evicting public housing residents, ripping communities apart, bulldozing public homes and carving up valuable public land for private development in the middle of a housing crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After years of Labor dismissing residents, ignoring advocates and refusing to justify why every tower must be demolished, the UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing has now condemned the lack of meaningful consultation and warned the demolitions could make Victoria\u2019s housing crisis even worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greens say that Labor\u2019s plan is an international human rights disgrace and that Premier Ben Carroll needs to finally admit it and scrap this plan that\u2019s been a total disaster from day one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Victorian Greens housing spokesperson, Gabrielle de Vietri:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor should be utterly ashamed. Their attack on public housing has now become an international human rights disgrace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor has become the party of bulldozers, evictions and privatisation.They have treated public housing residents as disposable and public land as something to be carved up for developers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn the middle of the worst housing crisis in generations, when people are sleeping in cars, rents are crushing families and tens of thousands of Victorians are waiting desperately for a public home, Labor\u2019s answer is to destroy public housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greens will stop Labor\u2019s demolition agenda, keep public housing land in public hands and build the tens of thousands of public homes Victoria desperately needs.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Victorian Greens say Labor has brought international shame on Victoria after the United Nations warned its plan to demolish and privatise all 44 of Melbourne\u2019s public housing towers could violate the human right to housing. The Greens say the extraordinary UN intervention exposes Labor\u2019s housing agenda for what it is – evicting public housing … Continue reading “Labor slammed an \u201cinternational human rights disgrace\u201d as UN condemns public housing demolition”<\/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-40744","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\/40744","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=40744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40745,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40744\/revisions\/40745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}