Residents challenge plans to demolish Melbourne public housing towers

The Alfred Street Public Housing complex in North Melbourne is one of 44 remaining public housing towers in Melbourne, Australia [Darrian Traynor/Getty Images]

Melbourne, Australia – The residents of dozens of public housing towers in the southern Australian city of Melbourne heard the state government was planning to demolish their homes on the news.

“Everyone found out from the TV, from the news, with the rest of Victoria,” Sara*, a resident of the first group of towers to be knocked down, told Al Jazeera.