article_snippet: ’s plan to sell off heritage-listed public housing and relocate 600 tenants.
article_snippet: CEO of Government Property NSW Brett Newman said Government Property was committed to divesting the remaining government-owned properties in the precinct over the next two years.
article_snippet: However, last September, Ms Upton said the sale of the Millers Point properties will return hundreds of millions of dollars to the public housing system to help the 58,000 people currently on the housing waiting list. '
article_snippet: This is all about reinvesting money back into the public housing system by selling properties that are very costly to maintain,' Ms Upton said. '
article_snippet: But Mr Gardner, who has lived in the area for more than 65 years, said the heritage of Sydney’s first neighbourhood will be lost with the sales with critics claiming the heritage of Sydney’s first neighbourhood is a 'social cleanse'.
article_snippet: The thing we’re really angry and upset about is the fact that some of these properties have been vacant for as many as seven years,’ he said.
article_snippet: ’s plan to sell off heritage-listed public housing .
article_snippet: It's a great neighbourhood and now us're slowly losing us homes. '
article_snippet: No Surrender: A mural at Lower Fort Street protesting the NSW government's moves to sell off social housing and evict 600 residents at Millers Point .