Facing the demolition of her Melbourne home, Ella gets a new flat – in another tower slated for destruction

Scores of public housing tenants are saying no to moving into buildings the state government plans to replace

When Ella* was told that the Melbourne public housing tower she lived in was being demolished, she didn’t imagine she’d have to move into another one facing the same fate.

But about a year after the Victorian government announced that her building would be among the first to be torn down as part of a plan to rebuild the state’s 44 public housing towers, she received a letter asking her to do just that.

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