Save Public Housing Debate: It's time for MPs to turn up!

Public housing residents have the right to a safe, secure & affordable home. But this will be up for debate in the Victorian Parliament on September 11, 2024.

The Victorian Labor Government plans to demolish and privatise all 44 public housing towers and displace over 10,000 residents. They want to give up the land to developers for mostly private, expensive housing. Labor’s plan will force people out of their homes and tear communities apart. Selling off public land will only make the housing crisis worse.

Thousands of Victorians have signed a parliamentary petition started by a public housing resident ...

Public housing residents have the right to a safe, secure & affordable home. But this will be up for debate in the Victorian Parliament on September 11, 2024.

The Victorian Labor Government plans to demolish and privatise all 44 public housing towers and displace over 10,000 residents. They want to give up the land to developers for mostly private, expensive housing. Labor’s plan will force people out of their homes and tear communities apart. Selling off public land will only make the housing crisis worse.

Thousands of Victorians have signed a parliamentary petition started by a public housing resident from Fitzroy, demanding that Labor stop the demolition and privatisation of public housing and public land. This now forces a special debate in Parliament and puts pressure on the government to stop the demolition and privatisation and build more public housing.

We need you to tell your Labor MP they can't weasel out of this debate. Write to your local upper house Labor MPs urging them to show up to the debate and explain why they support the plan to demolish and privatise the towers.

Every upper house MP has the choice to speak in the special debate, and as your representative they should. You have every right to know why your Labor representative is choosing to stand with wealthy property developers rather than Victorians in need of a home.

They can't keep silent in the middle of a housing crisis. Send them this letter so they show up and speak up at this debate.

With Victorians like you in every part of our state emailing upper house MPs, together we can build the pressure to save public housing and stop this disastrous plan.

Will you send a quick email to your Labor MP now? Call on them to show up for Victorians in need of secure housing, not property developers.

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To my political representative,

As your constituent, I’m deeply concerned about Labor's plans to demolish and privatise our state’s 44 public housing towers.

This is an alarming thing to do in the middle of a housing and homelessness crisis. This plan will displace more than 10,000 people, break up communities and move vulnerable Victorians away from the health and social services they need. It just doesn't add up to me.

As part of the plan, across Melbourne 6,660 public homes are going to be destroyed. There is no public housing guaranteed on this land into the future. The average increase in “social” housing proposed over the next 28 years, as part of this plan, is just 15 homes per year. Again, this does not make any sense.

On the 11th of September, there will be a special debate in the Victorian Upper House for the "Legislative Council Petition #518: Stop the destruction and privatisation of public housing" [see here: https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/get-involved/petitions/stop-the-destruction-and-privatisation-of-public-housing]. And you will have the chance to speak.

I’m asking you, as my elected representative, to participate in this parliamentary debate. I, along with many of your constituents, will be watching this debate.

I hope you choose to listen to concerned constituents, like me, and take this opportunity to explain to us your rationale for backing what sounds like a disastrous plan. If you choose not to speak, I would appreciate a reason for why not.

Thank you for your attention to this issue. I look forward to hearing your response, and hope you will have the courage to participate in the debate.

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