High Court hears final challenge to public housing tower demolition plan

Key points

• A High Court appeal has been heard in Canberra on October 7 in the final stage of a three-year legal fight against the Victorian Government's plan to demolish 44 public housing towers. The challenge, brought by Inner Melbourne Community Legal on behalf of residents of the first three towers, argues residents should have been given procedural fairness before the demolition plans were announced in 2023.
• The Court of Appeal has ordered that tenants of the three towers cannot be evicted while the appeal is pursued. Most former residents have been relocated.
• The outcome could take several months.