We will publish strong statements by politicians across the political spectrum that are in support of Public Housing.
Why has Labor and Minister Wynne allowed some of these essential public assets to fall into such disgraceful disrepair?
This serves to justify the bulldozing of public housing estates and their subsequent privatisation -housing and land- to private Community Housing aka Social Housing. The major 'Social Housing' Associations likely to win tenders are also property developers with million dollar portfolios.
Mr Clifford Hayes
Sustain Australia Party
Member of the Upper House -Legislative Council in Parliament
( August sitting 2021 )
"Last week I was invited by Dr Catherine Cumming to spend a few hours looking over the 750 or so houses owned by the state government in Braybrook.I thank Dr Cumming for the invitation to see these publicly owned homes and learn about the area.
I was quite shocked to see how many of these houses were either vacant or in a state of serious disrepair.
We came across many homes that were just boarded up, with overgrown gardens and dumped rubbish and some in what appeared to be terminal stages of neglect.
Now, everyone agrees we need more public housing and better public housing,and I am left wondering why the government is completely ignoring the potential to renovate or even rebuild these dilapidated properties to current-day standards and create more housing stock. It seems a no-brainer.
Given the scarcity of public housing, we should be using these valuable assets instead of selling them off to developers. This part of Braybrook is close to accessible transport and infrastructure.
I join Dr Cumming’s call to revitalise the area, repair these houses and re-use these vacant properties for their original purpose—low-cost public housing."
Thank you Dr Cummings for being involved with the public housing crisis by showing your colleague Clifford Hayes the dilapidated state of many public housing properties in Braybrook. It is not just Braybrook, there are run down and boarded up properties all over Victoria, which is shameful as there are thousands on the waiting list who want to be housed. It makes no sense for the Victoria government to keep sprouting about the thousands of new social housing builds but deliberately run down their own housing stock.
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