Notices by Renters and Housing Union (rahu@aus.social)

The Victorian Labor Government is determined to demolish and privatize public housing and sell off public land to their greedy developer cronies.

https://rahu.org.au/public-housing/

Over 10,000 residents are set to be displaced, and 6,660 homes are set to be demolished, during an ever-worsening housing crisis.

This is an attack on all of us, but will hit First Nations people, asylum seekers, disabled people, and the poor the hardest. This corrupt social cleansing of the city will displace people, push up rent and house prices, and make huge profits for developers.

Once public assets are sold off, they are all but lost to the private sector, and this may be our last chance to fully mobilise before the first tower comes down.

This process has been opaque, and the state government has refused to make public the documents used to make this decision. It is both an attack on the residents and the last fig leaf of democracy.

Mobilise yourself, friends, family, workmates, and comrades on Saturday 2nd August at 11 am at the State Library of Victoria as we say no to this ignorant, uncaring, and neoliberal scheme to destroy the lives of some of the most vulnerable members of society and channel more money to greedy corporations and the wealthy.

We will march past Homes Victoria and finish at Parliament House to let the politicians and bureaucrats know loud and clear what we think. It will take a huge number of people to move the needle.

This event is being organised and supported by many community groups who are resisting the privatisation and demolition of public housing, including:

Save Public Housing Collective

The Renters and Housing Union

Stop the Demolition

The Black Peoples Union

Uncle Robbie
and many more!

We fight together for the protection of public housing residents’ rights to dwell in safe, secure, and affordable homes and places.
We call for a radical increase in public housing stock in appropriate, well-located areas and an immediate stop to the transfer of public housing to the unaccountable, non-transparent, and subsidy-dependent community housing sector.

Join us on Saturday 2nd August at 11 am as we save the towers, people's homes, and the communities in and around them.

We acknowledge this rally will be held on stolen lands of the Bunurong and Wurundjeri people.

Facts! ✊

Alt text: Helpful flowchart asking is a person homeless? Yes? Did they make bad personal choices? Yes? House them. No? House them.