The Government needs to come clean on whether it is currently in negotiations with the developer of the Escarpment to pay them to not build houses in the middle of a housing crisis.
Premier Jeremy Rockliff has admitted that, after pouring nearly $130 million into Macquarie Point over the past decade, the government is now looking to build a new Hobart stadium at the site.
This would leave yet another Macquarie Point masterplan in tatters and will prevent the $100 million dollar housing development proposed at the Escarpment from going ahead.
While the Liberals obsess about a new stadium, nearly 4,500 families are waiting for social housing, and the average wait time since they came to government has more than quadrupled from 21 weeks to a staggering 90 weeks – or nearly two years.
The Liberals have failed to get the basics right on housing for nearly a decade.
It now appears the government is actively choosing to build a stadium over housing in the middle of a housing crisis.
Rebecca White MP
Labor Leader
