Public housing tenants are leading the push to stop New South Wales Labor from demolishing public housing in the inner city in the worst housing crisis in living memory.
At least 聽are on the NSW public housing waitlist.
Carolyn Ienna, a public housing tenant and Action for Public Housing spokesperson who was recently evicted from their home at 82 Wentworth Park Rd, Glebe, said her former home is 鈥減erfectly liveable鈥 but empty.
鈥淚t should not be demolished,鈥 Ienna told 麻豆传媒. 鈥淗ousing minister Rose Jackson just wants to privatise the land, and is willing to throw us tenants under the bus to get there.鈥
Despite promising to stop privatisation, Premier Chris Minns is planning to evict thousands of tenants from their homes by demolishing the estates in Glebe, Waterloo South and South Eveleigh. The land will be sold to developers.
Mascot public housing is also under threat. The Minns government has demolished public housing estate in Arncliffe and Telopea鈥檚 鈥淭hree Sister鈥 towers lie empty.
Karyn Brown, a tenant of Waterloo South public housing and a spokesperson for Action for Public Housing, said Heffron MP Ron Hoenig had 鈥渃ompletely betrayed鈥 Waterloo tenants.
He sent them a text before the NSW election saying that 鈥渙nly an ALP government can guarantee your home鈥.
At a media conference after the 2023 election, he said Waterloo was a 鈥渇ailed community鈥 and that the land would be given over to a private consortium of developers.
鈥淭hey say we鈥檒l be given eviction notices in July,鈥 Brown said. 鈥淥ur homes may be bulldozed as soon as January 2025.
鈥淧ublic housing is not the problem; it is the solution,鈥 Brown said.
鈥淚nstead of selling off public land and giving it to corporations, we should tax corporations properly and refit public housing and build more.鈥
Sarina Afa, a tenant at the Explorer Street estate in South Eveleigh said the residents are聽up for a fight. 鈥淚 know I have my community behind me, and we are going to fight to win.鈥
South Eveleigh residents have been told they will receive eviction notices as soon as December.
Siobhan Patton, an economist and campaigner with Action for Public Housing, said even the is concerned about how 鈥減ublic housing urban renewal鈥 favours 鈥渁 balancing of the books over-delivering for public housing tenants and the wider community鈥.
鈥淭he government appears to be doubling down. There are so many sites in Sydney that it could develop that wouldn鈥檛 involve displacing so many people,鈥 she told 麻豆传媒.
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