Housing: An Essential Service Present Housing Issues: Lack of secure and affordable housing impedes access to educational and employment opportunities for low to moderate income earners and students in job-rich areas. Higher expenditure on transport infrastructure is then required to transport workers and students to their destinations, restricting labour market mobility. Insufficient housing supply in […]
Author: glebegrapevine
Baird’s Privatisation of Public Housing labelled a disgrace! Sunday, January 24, 2016 The ten year framework on public housing released today is a recipe for more disadvantage and more unaffordability in the housing market. The Hands off Glebe group a public housing advocate group situated in the suburb of Glebe but with links to many […]
ggalert January 2016 click on this link to get a pdf of our submission aid for Social Housing at Cowper/Elger Sts Glebe. Urgent Urgent send off to the council by Jan 15 2016 Here is the text of our emergency alert Glebe Grapevine Alert ELGER STREET HIGH RISE The NSW Government has […]
Categories
The Grapevine October 2015
GG October 2015 click here to down load pdf of October Issue text of Glebe Grapevine October 2015 You heard it here! October 2015 Privatising Public Housing Around 460 Ivanhoe public housing residents at Macquarie Park are devastated at the news that they will be moved out to make way for 2,500 apartments […]
Cowper Appeal letter to Hazzard
Categories
Grapevine April 2015
download April Grapevine April 2015 Grapevine April 2015 Four more years of attacks on public housing Since its re-election the Baird Government has offered no solutions to high house prices, high rents, and public housing sell offs. In Sydney, growth in rents is outstripping growth in income. Only the wealthy are able to afford […]
The Minister for Social Housing’s announcement that half the public land at Cowper Street, Glebe will be sold to private developers is a disgrace. It will do nothing to help solve Sydney’s housing crisis but will steal land belonging to the people and give it to the wealthy. “The Baird Government should use some […]
Categories
The Glebe Grapevine Feb 2015
You heard it here! February 2015 ELECTION ISSUE On Saturday 28 March NSW will go to the polls to elect a new State Government. Hands Off Glebe asked the candidates for the seat of Balmain — Jamie Parker (Greens), Verity Firth (ALP) and Lyndon Gannon (Liberal) — 9 questions about the future of public […]
Submission from Hands off Glebe Inc. to the NSW Government’s Discussion Paper on Social Housing in NSW OVERVIEW “We are in a housing crisis that extends from the homeless on the street well into the middle class. We have couples deciding not to have children because they do not have the space to house […]
Bidura Sold! Bidura, the heritage house at 357 Glebe Point Road which has been a children’s home and later a Children’s Court since 1920, has been sold off for $33 million by the Baird Government without any consultation with our community. The sale includes the modern building behind the heritage house. The private developer has […]