Housing activists took to the streets in Glebe to show opposition to New South Wales Labor’s demolition plans for public housing sites. Kerry Smith reports.
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Activists highlighted New South Wales Labor’s destructive housing demolition agenda by temporarily occupying public housing at 82 Wentworth Park Road, Glebe, reports Isaac Nellist.
The Inner West Council plan for vastly increased housing development basically doubles the amount and height of development envisaged under the state government's plan, reports Hall Greenland.
New data shows a 63% surge in preventable deaths of homeless people because of critical shortages in housing and support services. Suzanne James reports.
Housing activists gathered outside Homes Victoria to protest Victorian Labor’s plan to demolish 44 public housing towers. Darren Saffin reports.
While new research shows that social housing wait lists are rapidly growing, Victorian and New South Wales Labor are pushing ahead with demolitions despite community resistance. Rachel Evans reports.
Labor has secured a second term, with a landslide victory, but unless unions, social and community movements organise for real change, it will continue to bend to the will of the billionaire class, argue Jacob Andrewartha and Isaac Nellist.
Amid the biggest housing crisis in Australia’s history and public housing being sold off, the most vulnerable public housing tenants say they are now even more isolated. Suzanne James reports.
Victorian Socialists senate candidate Jordan van dem Lamb, also known as Purple Pingers, is the guest on the latest Green Left Show.
Housing campaigner Jordan van den Lamb, the Victorian Socialists’ lead Senate candidate, spoke to Chloe DS about solutions for the housing crisis and tactics to build renters’ rights and housing affordability.
The mainstream media pushes the idea that elections are only about deciding which major party forms government. Tony Smith argues that the government-opposition duopoly is wearing thin and preferential voting helps.
Labor can’t lead the fight for housing, because its policies have helped create the problem. Sam Wainwright argues that winning requires a vision for systemic change, including defending and extending public housing and strengthening protections for tenants.
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