PUBLIC HOUSING – VICTORIA

Restrictions to ease in eight of Melbourne’s locked-down public housing towers

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SBS News – Page: Online : 10-Jul-20

Eight of the nine Melbourne public housing towers that were put in ‘hard lockdown’ on 4 July will move to stage- three restrictions, after 2,515 residents were tested for the coronavirus and a total of 158 tested positive. The 33 Alfred Street estate in North Melbourne, where 53 cases of COVID-19 have been detected, will remain under a hard lockdown for another nine days, although residents will be allowed outside for supervised exercise. The 105 residents in six towers who tested positive will be given the option of hotel quarantine. No coronavirus cases have been detected at two of the high-rise towers.

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Overcrowded towers are virus incubators

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Original article by Natasha Robinson
The Australian – Page: 3 : 7-Jul-20

Fifty-three residents of Melbourne’s nine locked-down public housing towers have tested positive to the coronavirus to date. Victoria’s Housing Minister Richard Wynne says that about 400 residents were tested on 6 July, and four per cent tested positive. The Victorian Public Tenants Association’ executive officer Mark Feenane says there is chronic overcrowding in the towers, adding that it is time to consider scrapping the high-rise buildings in favour of low-density accommodation. Australia’s acting Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly has likened the public housing towers to ‘vertical cruise ships’.

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VICTORIA. DEPT OF ENVIRONMENT, LAND, WATER AND PLANNING, VICTORIAN PUBLIC TENANTS ASSOCIATION

Napthine cut funds to housing program

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Original article by Henrietta Cook
The Age – Page: 10 : 23-Jun-14

The Homeless Law legal service in Victoria reports that 52 new cases of clients being threatened with eviction have arisen between April and June 2014, of which 24 relate to public housing tenants. At the same time the State Government has further reduced the funding for its Social Housing Advocacy & Support Program, from $A5.8m to $A4.7m. This is despite a confidential report by KPMG showing that the scheme is a major contributor to Victoria surpassing the targets set by the national partnership agreement on homelessness

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HOMELESS LAW, HOMEGROUND, VICTORIA. DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES. OFFICE OF HOUSING, AUSTRALIAN GREENS, COUNCIL TO HOMELESS PERSONS, JUSTICE CONNECT