The NSW Liberal Government is about to start selling off the first 6 of the 293 houses they are aiming to sell. This will socially cleanse the Millers Point community of all the public housing tenants.
Millers Point resident and chair of the Millers Point Resident Action Group John McInerney said there is an argument in favour of selling off some of the heritage-listed public houses given the costs of maintaining them, but that they strongly object to the wholesale sell-off of all the government-owned properties, including 33 boarding houses.
"The community here call it social cleansing and that's an apt description because this will change the diversity and the mix of people that live here," said Mr McInerney, a former Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney.
"The people who clean this city, the firemen, the service workers won't be able to live here because with this sell-off you'll only get high-income groups buying into the area."
Millers Point resident and chair of the Millers Point Resident Action Group John McInerney said there is an argument in favour of selling off some of the heritage-listed public houses given the costs of maintaining them, but that they strongly object to the wholesale sell-off of all the government-owned properties, including 33 boarding houses.
"The community here call it social cleansing and that's an apt description because this will change the diversity and the mix of people that live here," said Mr McInerney, a former Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney.
"The people who clean this city, the firemen, the service workers won't be able to live here because with this sell-off you'll only get high-income groups buying into the area."
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