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Callum Godde and Cassandra Morgan

Towers to be torn down for first housing 'accelerator'

Carlton's vacant Housing Commission towers in Melbourne will be demolished for a new development. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Two "uninhabitable" towers in Melbourne's inner-north will make way for Australia's first social housing "accelerator" project to boost supply amid a national crisis.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joined Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews on Tuesday to announce the demolition of Carlton's vacant red-brick towers to make way for a new development.

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