Despite the rain, a BBQ brought together residents of Explorer Street in Eveleigh, near Redfern, and others campaigning for public housing on February 13. Pip Hinman reports.
Public housing
More than 100 people聽protested against聽the New South Wales government's plan to bulldoze 112 public housing聽dwellings in Glebe, reports Peter Boyle.
Marianne Mackay and Sam Wainwright聽argue that the forced clearing of the Fremantle聽homeless people鈥檚 camp聽demonstrates the WA Labor government's failure to address homelessness.
Residents in the Glebe public housing estate were letterboxed on November 11 about the demolition of their homes.聽The next day, public housing residents in Eveleigh received a similar letter. Rachel Evans reports.
The systematic running-down of public housing by governments over a few decades is not news. However, in Western Australia the situation has become particularly desperate, writes Sam Wainwright.
Jacob Andrewartha reports on concerns that state funding for new public, as distinct from social, housing has not been included in the Victorian government's housing plan.
The passing of the Greens-initiated motion for a Green New Deal in the Victorian Legislative Council is a significant step forward, writes Sue Bolton.
Planning and vision are needed to ensure that people suffering housing stress have a roof over their heads, writes Sarah Hathway.
Union organisers, health workers and Muslim community representatives say it is聽essential the community be given a central role in coordinating a public health response to COVID-19, reports Jacob Andrewartha.
Public housing tenants, housing co-operative activists and renters protested outside the NSW parliament to demand relief for residential renters, reports Rachel Evans.
The British Labour Party has promised to 鈥渒ick-start a housing revolution鈥 as it unveiled its election manifesto, including commitments that would bring about Britain鈥檚 biggest public housing construction program for decades.
Homelessness is often seen as the result of personal factors. But, according to Peter Mares, author of No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia's Housing Crisis, homelessness and housing stress are systemic problems as the housing market is not providing for people's needs.
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