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- australia
- cross-posted to:
- australia
This week the Victorian Government released its Housing Statement, outlining a number of large and small changes across the housing sector. From changes to planning laws, to the demolition of public housing towers across Melbourne some of the plans will have significant real-world impacts, but they may not all be beneficial.
Years ago I took a call and passed on a message to a colleague from an old acquaintance of theirs. The acquaintance was going to be evicted from public housing in NSW that was slated to be knocked down and privatised and they desperately wanted help to stop it. Many many months later I enquired as to the situation of this person. Unfortunately they had taken their life before news of the reversal of the privatisation was announced. This was only a small estate of a dozen or so flats. Privatisation and austerity is murder.