The Andrews government is poised to massively ramp up its sales of publicly owned Crown land around Victoria, with more than 2600 hectares set to go under the hammer.

About 151 sites in Melbourne and country Victoria are listed as on the market or future land sales by the state government in a sell-off that dwarfs the 533 hectares sold in the past 10 years.

The sites to be sold range from former schools, police stations and a potato farm to stand-alone houses and the ill-fated Evo Apartments in Melbourne’s inner-north, bought by the previous state government to accommodate the abandoned East West Link tunnel.

The Victorian Greens will move in State Parliament next week to halt the sales, arguing that much of the land could be used to help with the state’s “dire” public housing system.

Land in Footscray, Clifton Hill and Essendon is slated for auction despite being identified by University of Melbourne academics as priority sites for housing for the homeless.