When
to
Where
State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Australia
Why
The Victorian Labor Government is determined to demolish and privatise public housing and sell off public land to their greedy developer cronies.
Join us at the State Library of Victoria on Saturday 30 May 2026 at 11am and then march to the Atherton Gardens public towers in Fitzroy as we fight to save the towers, people's homes, and the communities in and around them.
After the rally will be a community festival at the towers.
Over 10,000 residents are set to be displaced, and 6,660 homes are set to be demolished, during an ever-worsening housing crisis.
The State of Victoria has the lowest level of public and community housing in Australia, at 2.8 percent. Over 58,000 households remain on the state public housing waiting list; many more remain in over-priced substandard private rental accommodation.
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 or leased to community housing corporations for nearly half a century, they are all but lost to the private sector, and this rally may be the last chance to fully mobilise before the first tower comes down.
The event is being organised and supported by many community groups who are resisting the privatisation and demolition of public housing.
For those who can't march from the city to Fitzroy, please meet us at the towers at 12.30pm for the end of the rally and show your support and stay for the community festival.
No evaluations of the structural conditions of the buildings have been released to justify this far-reaching decision and the opaque process that justifies it.
In this crisis, housing and social justice advocates and concerned people in general are joining up to secure the protection and growth of public housing in Victoria.
Expert proposals to retrofit the towers with minimal disruption to residents have been ignored.
The demolitions will displace more than 10,000 people with no relocation plans other than to be pushed to the front of the waiting list, meaning those already on the list will have to wait longer.
Meanwhile, other tracts of public land deemed surplus to government requirements are being sold to private companies for market-rate residential development.
This impoverished policy landscape in Victoria cannot be allowed to continue.
Join us and help save public housing.
Organisers acknowledge this rally will be held on stolen lands of the Bunurong and Wurundjeri people.
For the latest updates check the Facebook event.
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Save Public Housing Collective
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