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The first two Millers Point public housing properties will go to auction this month, with one having attracted more than 200 inspections already.
The four-storey Victorian house at 119 Kent St, with harbour views, has had more than 200 inspections and has attracted more than 1000 inquiries — with more than 50 people signing pre-auction contracts ahead of the 21 August sale.
Five days later Lower Fort Street — another four storey house with harbour views — will go under the hammer. Together, the properties are expected to make the NSW government more than $4 million — enough to build at least eight new Housing NSW properties in Western Sydney.
They are the first of 293 former public housing properties in Millers Point to be sold.
The government expects to make at least $500 million from the sale process.
Community Services Minister Gabrielle Upton said it would cost up to $100 million to restore and maintain the houses. “It simply is not fair to the 58,000 applicants on the social housing waiting list for the government to spend millions of dollars maintaining properties which are not suitable for social housing,” Ms Upton said.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/real-estate/homebuyers-search-for-the-suburbs-that-have-houses-for-sale-at-less-than-1-million/story-fndban6l-1227019799198
Our Response
G' Day Friends & Supporters of Millers Point! If this naïve Minister, Gabrielle Upton would accept our invitation come to Millers Point and meet the Public Housing Tenants maybe, just maybe she would understand that over 90% don't live in homes like the ones being sold and that the huge maintenance & repair bills she refers to are not applicable to the majority of the P.H.T's homes, and, as to "NOT SUITABLE" for Public Housing! What’s changed in over 100yrs to make them unsuitable? And they will last another 100yrs if the maintenance & repairs are performed periodically as they were by the previous landlords Sydney Harbour Trust and then the M.S.B. (both State Gov. Depts.)
The This Tenant of 65yrs in the same dwellings (40yrs next door, 25yrs? present home) can only see one reason and that is the huge amount of money that would be shared by the "STATE LIBERAL GOV. & THEIR DEVELOPER MATES" from the sale of our homes. You see the homes that have already been sold were to private individuals and they have been vacant for several years as are the latest offerings but what about the typical rows of Terrace Houses that the average Public Housing Tenant lives in that could be brought back to pristine condition for approx. 1/4 of the figure quoted by the State Liberal Gov.? These will be very attractive and Developers will buy entire streets!
Let’s not forget no State Government own these properties "You" the people of NSW do! and should ponder one thing, and that is these simple dwellings including the large homes they are selling have been "PAID FOR TEN TIMES OVER IN THEIR LIFE TIME" and the main reason that they have stood the test of time is because of the people that have, and still lived in them! Importantly the reason that they have lapsed into disrepair is due to those who owe not only the Tenants but the people of NSW duty of care! That’s right the "NSW Government".
I ask more questions out of interest, if $4 million is expected to be raised for the sale of these two properties and "EIGHT NEW H/NSW PROPERTIES" are to be built in Western Sydney, then "WHERE & WHEN" will the first spade of dirt be turned because already $40 million has been raised through the sale of properties in Millers Point previously and there is no evidence of large developments of Social, Public or Affordable Housing in NSW, rather this State Liberal Gov. has sold off more properties then it has built or acquired. We here at the "POINT" remain sceptical and suspicious!!!
Kind Regards, Barney Gardner.
#savemillerspoint
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