The COVID-19 pandemic has brought systemic inequality to the fore.聽Pip Hinman writes that聽there is one group who are particularly at risk 鈥 older women.
affordable housing
The British Labour Party has promised to 鈥渒ick-start a housing revolution鈥 as it unveiled its election manifesto, including commitments that would bring about Britain鈥檚 biggest public housing construction program for decades.
More than 350 Victorian Socialists members and supporters packed out Preston Town Hall on April 6 to launch the party鈥檚 federal election campaign.
A 鈥淗omes not Prisons鈥 event in Fitzroy on July 18 attracted more than 100 concerned public housing residents and community members from across Melbourne to the Atherton Gardens public housing precinct.
The aim was to highlight the staggering inequity of expenditure by state and federal governments on prisons compared to public housing for the vulnerable in the community.
In a dawn raid on May 4, about 20 police descended on protesters, who had set up tents on the lawn in front of Hobart鈥檚 Parliament House to protest the state government鈥檚 lack of response to Hobart鈥檚 housing crisis, and ordered them to move on.
About 200 supporters of the iconic Sirius building gathered in its courtyard on January 27 to farewell the last remaining resident of the public housing block, 91-year-old Myra Demetriou who had lived in the building since 2008.
The Coalition state government decided in 2014 to sell Sirius as part of its program to sell off all the public housing properties in the Millers Point and Rocks inner-city areas.
Shaun Carter, chairperson of the Save Our Sirius Foundation, introduced Demetriou as 鈥渢he face of our campaign, the voice of our campaign鈥.
The Aboriginal Housing Company (AHC) called a meeting to inform residents about its housing development, the Pemulwuy Project, at the Block in Redfern on March 9.
About 200 people packed the Redfern Community Centre to ask questions of AHC about its plans to increase the size of the development. After just 25 minutes, AHC closed the meeting down as the audience loudly voiced its opposition to the radically enlarged plans.
So a member of the Coalition government said something tone-deaf and out of touch again. It must have been on a day ending with 鈥測鈥. When asked last week about housing affordability, federal Treasurer Joe Hockey came out with this cracker: "The starting point for a first homebuyer is to get a good job that pays good money." Oh, of course, Joe! Why hasn't anyone thought of that before?
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