Hands off Glebe Inc, a community public housing advocacy group, has condemned the Federal Budget as “heartless and shortsighted” for failing to fund an increase in social housing in the face of huge and growing unemployment and cuts to income support payments. Treasurer Frydenberg committed to an extension of the First Home Loan Deposit scheme […]
Category: Maintenance of Housing
Lord Mayors plan action on homelessness We need the Federal and State/Territory Governments to take real action by increasing funding for social and affordable housing, particu-larly in inner cities,” Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore said at the meeting of the Council of Capital City Lord Mayors in Brisbane on 10 July. “We need to work […]
Dear all, In very inclement weather we persisted with our rally to defence public housing and to assist where we could with the Save Millers Point campaign. We have uploaded several videos of the demo which you are welcome to view. We were extremely pleased with the turn out. Note we use triple M […]
This is our city! “This is our city and we will not be driven out of it!” declared Denis Doherty from Hands off Glebe to the cheers of about 150 people outside NSW Parliament House demonstrating in support of public housing on 27 March. Hands off Glebe, a small community group campaigning for […]
We are sick of the backlog of maintenance in Public Housing. Even the NSW Auditor General says the NSW Gov is $330 million behind in its maintenance. Time to get out and march in march! During the Parliamentary sitting day! check out the details:
We are interested in getting some action going to get the NSW Government to commit to maintenance for the 2014 budget. Do you think this postcard would work? Make suggestions on the Facebook page of Housing Action
We received this reply to our letter about a leak at the rear of a property in Mitchell St. “Land and Housing Corporation advise that plumbers have since located and repaired the leaking storm water drain.” to which we replied We have photos of this leak which we are putting online and we can give […]