On this episode of On The Streets, we discuss the workers’ campaigns fighting for better pay, workloads and conditions, and upcoming events for Naksa Day.
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Karyn Brown, a resident at the Waterloo Estate, skewered Labor’s proposition that it was delivering “positive outcomes” for tenants. Pip Hinman reports.
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More than 300 people rallied against Victorian Labor’s decision to demolish 44 public housing estates and demanded that the Jacinta Allan government put in more public housing. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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Housing activists and those advocating for the homeless say that councils should rethink deploying private security officers because the evidence shows they are inflaming the already difficult situation. Jake Maison reports.
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On this episode of On The Streets, we discuss the solidarity shown with Gazans under siege and Sumud flotilla participants and the ongoing fight to save public housing from demolition.
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New York City is set to build 200,000 new affordable and rent-stabilised homes and preserve another 200,000 over the next decade, reports Stephen Prager.
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Housing activists are trying to stop demolition teams from starting to fence off public housing units at Waterloo public housing estate on the corner of Cope and McEvoy Streets, Waterloo. Andrew Chuter reports.
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The federal Labor government is boasting its small housing tax changes are the most comprehensive housing plan in generations. Rachel Evans argues they aren’t and lays out what could be done to fix housing unaffordability.
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Opposition leader Angus Taylor wants to make permanent residents who are not citizens ineligible for welfare payments and NDIS support. He also wants the number of migrants to be tied to housing construction. Jonathan Strauss looks at why.
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Person to person, a panoramic video exhibit in the 2026 Sydney Biennale by artists Merilyn Fairskye and Michiel Dolk, shares the rich history of Woolloomooloo told through first-hand stories of local residents, writes Peter Boyle.
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On this episode of On The Streets we discuss rallies to mark 78 years of al Nakba (the Catastrophe) and upcoming actions to save Waterloo public housing.
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Labor is boasting that its latest budget delivers the most significant transformation of the tax system in a quarter century. But, as Peter Boyle argues, this is more spin than reality.