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participate in processes that hindered their access to housing. The keys to several previously occupied homes (such as 16, 12 and 2 Bendigo Street) were handed back to the state government and several residents are housed in public housing, some after waiting for years with 35,000 others on the public housing waiting list. The injunction was then extended.
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to stop the evictions. The injunction was granted on the grounds that 24–48 hours was not sufficient time to allow for people to vacate, risking forcing them back into homelessness. The implications for the women and children residing in the occupied houses are particularly taken into consideration.
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All the squats were evicted by 23 November, when over 100 police swept the street, arresting three people. The
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against the government was reported in the news media. The tollway project was subsequently cancelled by the new
Andrews Labor government, who initially committed to transferring 20 of the acquired houses to the social housing sector specifically to house homeless people. However, only four or five
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On 11 August, the state government and police delivered eviction notices to each of the 13 houses occupied at that time, allowing people 24–48 hours to vacate, after which time police would be used to throw people back into homelessness. In response on 12 August, residents from the occupied houses
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The injunction and legal processes forced the state government to meet with residents of the houses; three families and three women were able to negotiate pathways into public housing, and to allow time to engage with services, while others were either not offered any housing, or were offered to
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Commission into Family Violence, the Andrews Labor government announced in April that it was considering using the empty properties as crisis accommodation for women and families escaping domestic violence. By August, there were around 100 squatters.
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of these were filled – with people with personal links to the social housing organisation managing the properties – the rest remained empty 6–18 months later while the state government waited to rent or sell them on the private housing market.
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were arrested. In early
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and housing campaigners. After a day-long standoff with the state government over two of the houses, the community gained control of the houses and began using them as a campaign hub, a
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of 92 houses and 26 businesses in the project area, which the government claimed to be the bare minimum required to complete the road. However, the acquisitions were criticised by the
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taken back and they will probably be put up for private sale." On 12 November, the state government had announced a $ 109m homelessness funding package.
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but were quickly evicted by the state government. This sparked a protest at the house involving the
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road. The houses, mostly on
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released detailed plans for its East West Link road project, a tunnel from the city end of the
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540:"East West Link homes: Bendigo Street squatters told to vacate immediately"
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321:"Homeless women 'told they had 10 minutes to leave' East West Link home"
509:"East West Link squatters free from eviction for another three weeks"
383:"East West Link homes could be used to help family violence victims"
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601:"Bendigo Street 'beyond the pale' after death: housing minister"
290:"Homes forcibly acquired for East West Link for sale next year"
632:"Last stand of the Bendigo Street squatters ends in handcuffs"
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M2 tollway through inner
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Lee, Marika Dobbin Thomas and Jane (28 October 2016).
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259:"East West Link houses handed over to homeless people"
478:"Victoria's public housing waiting list skyrockets"
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570:"Melbourne squat death 'not suspicious' – 2ST"
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