Public Housing Campaigns

Public housing is an appropriate housing option for older people, as rents are capped at 25% of income, and it provides security of tenure. HAAG advocates for investment Public and Community Housing to raise it to 10% of all housing stock across the country.

Meanwhile, Victoria has the lowest level of Public Housing stock in the country, and the state plans plans to “retire and redevelop” the public housing towers over the coming decades. Our concerns lie with older tenants living in public housing high rises, older people on the waitlist for public housing and/or living in extremely unaffordable private rental, the use of public land, the impact of relocations, and the future of public housing.

Latest Public Housing Campaign Updates

Things Will Be Different screening Brisbane

20 May 2024

Things Will Be Different is a documentary film exploring two neighbours’ experiences of displacement as they are forced to relocate from their Public Housing estate when it was sold for private redevelopment. The film explores the impact of losing one’s home and the important role public housing plays in our communities.

Things Will Be Different screening Perth

18 May 2024

Things Will Be Different is a documentary film exploring two neighbours’ experiences of displacement as they are forced to relocate from their Public Housing estate when it was sold for private redevelopment. The film explores the impact of losing one’s home and the important role public housing plays in our communities.

Inkerman St Residents Meeting

15 May 2024

There is going to be a Parliamentary Inquiry into the demolition of the Public Housing towers. Housing for the Aged Action Group would like to talk to residents, to hear your views, and let the Government know what you think.

Victorian Inquiry recommends building 60,000 new social homes and starts an important conversation about what ‘affordable housing’ really means

Building 60,000 new social housing homes, an improved definition of ‘affordable housing’, tackling discrimination in the private rental market, and improving security of tenure are recommendations from the Inquiry into the Rental and Housing Affordability Crisis in Victoria that will help protect older Victorians from homelessness.

Not even stagnating: renters rights and the Victorian Housing Statement

8 Nov 2023
Shane and Reuben talk to Louisa Bassini, the Acting Director of Legal Practice at Inner Melbourne Community Legal, about the Victorian government's recent Housing Statement, focusing on the government's plans to demolish all the city's public housing highrises and what that means for current public housing tenants. We also talk more broadly about renters rights and the housing situation in Melbourne. 
Listen in on 3cr.org.au

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