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The housing crisis is the worst in living memory. It is a humanitarian disaster. The state and federal ALP government plans will make the situation worse.
There are currently 170,000 people on the public housing waiting list federally. Yet, the Albanese Government’s Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) aims to only fund homes for just 12% of households currently on the list.
The NSW ALP Minns government is following in the Perrotet Liberal government’s footsteps and proposing to demolish public housing estate 82 Wentworth Park Rd, Glebe; Explorer St, South Eveleigh and Waterloo.
Meanwhile, the ALP Victorian government is trying to demolish the Barak Beacon public housing estate in Port Melbourne.
But we are fighting back. Public housing tenants, renters, community organisers are resisting demolition plans, rallying, and occupying to defend and extend public housing, freeze rents and introduce vacancy taxes on empty dwellings. Negotiations on HAFF by Greens Housing spokesperson Max Chandler Mather have assisted the calls for real action.
Under pressure, Anthony Albanese has delivered $2 billion for social homes and threatened a double dissolution on the topic if the Greens don’t pass their HAFF when Federal Parliament returns after recess, in October.
Join this important discussion about next steps forward for the fight for housing justice.
Speakers
- Max Chandler Mather, Greens MP for Griffith and Greens Housing spokesperson, via zoom
- John Koch, Retired CFMEU, former Builders Labourers Federation activist
- Margaret Kelly, Barak Beacon - Port Melbourne public housing tenant, coming in via zoom
- Ishbel Dunsmore, Sydney University Student Representative Council Education officer
- Dr. Alistair Sisson, Action for Public Housing spokesperson and early career researcher whose work focuses on housing, gentrification, and urban development and planning
- Public housing tenant activists from South Eveleigh, Waterloo, Glebe.
Meal from 6pm, forum starts at 6.30pm.