The Greens have labelled Labor's response to the Parliamentary Inquiry into the public housing demolition 'arrogant and utterly disrespectful' after just four of twenty one recommendations were accepted.
It comes after the Labor tabled their response to the Parliamentary inquiry into the demolition of the public housing towers.
Labor's response details they do not support eight of the key recommendations including publishing documentation which provides rationale for the project. The response also reveals the Labor government won't guarantee public land will remain in public hands and they won't confirm that there will be a single public home built after future demolitions.
The report, which was tabled in December, revealed that the Labor Government was pushing ahead with a multi-billion-dollar mass demolition and privatisation of public housing, while withholding evidence, sidelining experts, and placing public housing residents under immense stress and uncertainty.
It recommended that demolitions should be halted until condition reports, feasibility studies into alternatives to demolition, and a cost-benefit analysis for each site could be provided.
As stated by Greens spokesperson for Housing, Gabrielle de Vietri:
"This is arrogant and utterly disrespectful from Labor. They are charging ahead with a project that has no support from experts or the community, no justification and no public benefit."
"Labor couldn't care less about telling the truth to everyday Victorians or to the thousands of public housing residents whose lives they are tearing apart, their response to the inquiry proves this."
"This is a dark day for the future of public housing and for the people of Victoria. We have a government who is refusing transparency, refusing people their human rights, refusing expert advice and refusing to tell us the truth - who is really benefiting from this project?"
"The only winners here are private developers who want access to valuable public land and Labor who want their dirty donations."
As stated by Greens Member for Northern Metropolitan and Member of the Legal and Social Issues Committee:
"Labor has completely turned their back on residents and everyone who was brave enough to give evidence to this inquiry."
