Daniel Andrews said maintaining Melbourne’s 44 public housing towers would cost about $55 million each over two decades, but declined to say how much redevelopment would cost.
to refurbish the low-rise Barack Beacon estate in Port Melbourne – which is already being redeveloped – and add extra dwellings on-site rather than knocking it down and rebuilding.
“That’s maintenance alone, that’s not retrofitting. Even if you retrofit them, you can’t get them up to standard,” Andrews said. Andrews was joined by Omar Farah, who lived in a low-rise public housing block in Ascot Vale that has now been rebuilt. Opposition Leader John Pesutto, addressing branch members at the Liberal Party’s state council on Sunday, said Labor had offered nothing for hopeful home buyers.
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