Victorian Labor party members to stage revolt over public housing tower redevelopment

Exclusive: Rank and file group wants a doubling of social housing at the 44 tower sites and a guarantee all the land will stay in public hands

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Rank and file Victorian Labor party members will use an upcoming state council meeting to push the government to guarantee no public land will be sold off to private developers when it knocks down the state's 44 public housing towers.

Labor for Housing - a non-factional advocacy group within the Victorian Labor party that advocates for better housing policies - will also use May's state conference to call for a doubling of the social housing contained in the planned redevelopment.

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