Lives in limbo: public housing residents face eviction in Victoria

Developers have to allocate only 10% of properties for social housing in the redevelopment of nine inner-city estates

Margaret Scarratt was "devastated" when she heard her home of more than 50 years could be demolished. In May, she and her husband, John, heard that their home, a walk-up flat in a Clifton Hill public housing estate, and eight other estates, had been earmarked by the Victorian government for a "renewal" program.

The program will begin with the redevelopment of the nine inner-city housing estates - all in highly lucrative areas for developers in inner Melbourne. Clifton Hill is only 4km from the CBD and its median property price is well above the average.