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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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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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released detailed plans for its East West Link road project, a tunnel from the city end of the
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