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11 August 2026
The ALP plans to demolish all 44 of Melbourne's public housing towers by 2050, displacing 10,000 residents while offering only a fraction of new social housing in return. Take action now to hold the government accountable.
16 May 2026
An SPHC member takes a closer look at how public and community housing is shrinking, in ‘Social Housing Envoy’ Josh Burns MP’s southside elecorate.
‘No Work, No Rent - Melbourne locked down while rent increases and evictions rise.’
RAHU’s demands
28th May 2021
SPHC Victorian Government Budget Analysis
By Prof Libby Porter and Dr David Kelly
May 21st 2021
SPHC Federal Budget Response
May 12th 2021
Analysis of Big Housing Build
By Prof Libby Porter and Dr David Kelly
2020
‘Melbourne tower lockdowns unfairly target already vulnerable public housing residents’
By David Kelly, Kate Shaw & Libby Porter
July 6th 2020
Public housing in Ascot Vale to go, as demolition hots up across city
By Clay Lucas
June 14th 2020
Public housing ‘renewal’ likely to drive shift to private renters, not owners, in Sydney
By Dallas Rogers and Michael Darcy
July 8th 2020
‘Calls for surplus land to be used for public housing as pandemic bites’
By Jewel Topsfield
May 4th 2020
‘Shh! Don’t mention the public housing shortage. But no serious action on homelessness can ignore it’
By David Kelly, Kate Shaw & Libby Porter
October 10th 2019
‘Northcote housing development creates two classes of resident’
By Nick Legge
June 16th 2019
‘Voices of residents missing in a time of crisis for public housing’
By David Kelly
April 12 2018
‘HOMES’ an exhibition about Public Housing
By Celeste de Clario Davis
April 19th 2019
‘Housing for the People’