Members of the Allan government are fuming after a minister failed to head off a damaging parliamentary inquiry into the demolition of 44 social housing towers.
Members of the Allan government are fuming after a minister failed to prevent a damaging parliamentary inquiry into the demolition of 44 social housing towers.
Three government sources, speaking anonymously to detail internal conversations, said Premier Jacinta Allan’s office was under the impression that the inquiry did not have the numbers to pass. The total number of residents across the 44 sites will triple to 30,000 people, but the increase in social housing residents will be just 1000 people.
Victoria has never achieved this. In the 12 months to January, 51,068 were approved – down 17.6 per cent on the same 12-month period a year earlier.“The Greens motion in parliament this week was a typically self-indulgent exercise in loudly admiring a problem, whilst offering no solution,” she said. “Although we’re building thousands of new social and affordable homes across Melbourne that are bright, modern, beautiful and energy efficient – homes to really be proud of – the Greens are effectively saying these homes shouldn’t be available to residents of the towers,” she said.
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