sortius :Fire_Bisexual:In other poverty news, Victoria's big plan to exile poor people from the city is rolling ahead, despite clear problems with it... like the plan itself (yes, I live in one of these estates):
Engineer who helped build Melbourne’s public housing towers condemns plan to demolish ‘icons’
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/06/victoria-public-housing-inquiry-melbourne-towers-engineer-condemns-plan-to-demolish-icons
#auspol #springst
Steve@sortius@infosec.exchange as I’ve said to you privately, they absolutely need to be refreshed, and honestly with some of the towers I’m not sure the engineer is right that they can be refurbished, but the plan put forward by the government is the absolute worst outcome. Social housing is not a fix, public housing should be replaced with public housing. Doing so with modern high density living standards would potentially allow more residents in the are, with a higher standard of living and dignity
sortius :Fire_Bisexual:@lilstevie@infosec.exchange yep, right now we all know what they're doing. They're deliberately letting them fall apart. This can be exemplified by people across the road waiting for fixes for anything, meanwhile I call and people will be here within hours.
The action group have repeatedly brought this up. And this is after they got caught holding 5 floors empty for 2 years to build a case that occupancy is low