Action for Public Housing

  • No evictions, save Selwyn Street Paddington boarding homes!

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    More than 20 vulnerable, mostly elderly men, risk eviction from their homes on Saturday February 1, 2025. In 2023, developer LFD Homes bought the four boarding house terraces in Selwyn Street Paddington, with the intention of evicting the tenants to build four luxury villas in their place. Despite the state government and local council pledging to buy the boarding home terraces,…

  • Save Waterloo: No evictions, no sell off, no demolitions

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    We can save our community if we stick together and resist. Homes NSW delivered 150 eviction letters to residents near McEvoy St, Waterloo in late February. It is part of a plan to hand over Waterloo to private developers. After ten years in limbo, with our hopes raised and then dashed by the ALP, there is still no certainty. In a housing crisis, where 64,000 applicants in NSW…

  • Protest Inner West Council's expensive pro-developer build plan

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    Inner West Council wants to demolish streets in Marrickville, Ashfield and Dulwich Hill and build massive private apartment blocks in their stead. Their poorly publicised "Better Futures" Plan aims to add more than 31,000 dwellings to a small number of suburbs in Sydney’s Inner West, while leaving others untouched. The current plan has only 2% (going up to 5%) affordable housing…

  • Housing Justice Summit (National)

    • Online
    • Nationwide
    • Gadigal Country/Sydney
    • Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide
    • Naarm/Melbourne

    Hear from a panel of activist researchers, unionists and housing activists from all over the country discuss how to achieve housing justice.
    The housing crisis is the worst in living memory. It is a humanitarian disaster. 750,000 people live in housing stress and are in desperate need of secure housing. What is on offer from federal and state governments is grossly inadequate and set to make the situation worse.

  • Film screening: Green City

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    Green City is a rarely-before-seen documentary about the struggle against developer greed in Gadigal-Sydney in the 1970s. It features the story about the famous, militant Builders Labourers Federation, Jack Mundey and the 'green bans', which saved swathes of heritage buildings, suburbs and homes from greedy developers and motorways…

  • Supper and solidarity to save Selwyn St boarding home residents from eviction

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    Seventeen mostly elderly men, risk eviction from their homes on Monday March 3, 2025. A developer, LFD Developments, bought four boarding house terraces in Selwyn Street, Paddington, in 2023. They aim to evict the tenants, overhaul the terraces and build four luxury villas in their stead. Despite the state government and local council pledging to buy the boarding home terraces,…

  • Save public housing BBQ and planning session

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    The NSW ALP state government is evicting public housing tenants from the Glebe, Waterloo South and Mascot estates. There are 150 residents in Waterloo South, 40 residents in Mascot and residents in Glebe being evicted to sell off their homes and public lands to developers. This will gentrify the inner city and make property investors richer. Stunning, well-maintained public…