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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent

Victorian Labor party members to stage revolt over public housing tower redevelopment

A public housing tower in Carlton
Labor for Housing says it will call for an increase in the number of social housing dwellings on the 44 tower sites from 11,000 to 20,000. Photograph: James Ross/AAP

Rank and file Victorian Labor party members will use an upcoming state council meeting to push the government to guarantee no public land will be sold off to private developers when it knocks down the state’s 44 public housing towers.

Labor for Housing – a non-factional advocacy group within the Victorian Labor party that advocates for better housing policies – will also use May’s state conference to call for a doubling of the social housing contained in the planned redevelopment.

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