The Guardian • public housing
Issue #2061
LETTER
Housing: a human right Re: “The Housing Crisis” (Guardian #2059 3rd July 2023) Dear comrade editor, Thank you, Denis Doherty, for your insightful article on...
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Issue #2058
AUKUS, the ranks are breaking
How good would it be if we could see headlines like these? Albanese to spend $300 billion on Public Housing or Power prices to plummet...
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Issue #2005
Communists are back in Canberra
Workers in Canberra have recently established a Canberra branch of the CPA, which hasn’t maintained a branch for several years. The new members hope that...
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Issue #2058
Housing activists unite for public housing
CPA members in Sydney attended the Homes for People, Not for Profit: End the Housing Crisis rally on 17th June in support of public housing...
Read moreNational crisis for Australian renters
On census night in 2016, an estimated 116,000 people were experiencing homelessness across Australia.
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Issue #1948
Community action pushes back against demolition of Glebe public housing
Residents and organisers from the Hands off Glebe campaign have come together in solidarity with protestors for their most recent public demonstration.
Read moreWA housing crisis
Since the moratorium on evictions and rent-rises ran out at the end of March, Western Australia has been experiencing a housing crisis and a rising number of unhoused people as we head into winter.
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Issue #2022
Canberra housing coalition kicks off
More than forty activists from across Canberra met at the Canberra Food Co-op to launch the Canberra Housing Coalition. As reported in the Guardian previously...
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Issue #1948
Hands Off Glebe Inc media release
A wide range of groups has come together in a campaign to stop NSW Government housing “renewal” plans in Glebe and South Everleigh in Sydney.
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Issue #2023
The rent is too high!: RAHU speaks truth to power at the Victorian state election
On 2nd September, the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU) launched their state election campaign in Victoria, on the platform that “the rent is too high.”...
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Issue #2026
Strong community challenge issued to NSW and federal governments over their lack of housing vision
The NSW Government is attacking Glebe public housing again. Not satisfied with demolishing public housing in Elger, Cowper, and Franklyn Streets, now they plan to...
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Issue #2027
Canberra branch celebrates formal launch
On Saturday, members and friends met to celebrate the official launch of the Canberra branch of the CPA. Having formed earlier this year, its first...
Read moreShelter a basic human right
Australia is facing a massive housing crisis. As it becomes increasingly more difficult to find affordable rental accommodation, governments are turning their backs on renters...
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Issue #2014
The tragedy of inaccessible housing and domestic violence
On 1st February at 11:35 PM, I was given the news that my friend, Aminah Hayat, had been allegedly killed by her husband. I had...
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Issue #2041
ALP housing policy is a sham!
In May 2022, the new Labor government promised an injection of $10 billion into the housing sector. In late February 2023, not a single house...
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Issue #2014
The devil in the details of the “housing crisis”
The latest Census figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) have revealed that Australia had over one million unoccupied houses. This is approximately...
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Issue #2041
Housing Justice Rally
About 300 activists gathered in Sydney Town Hall on 11 February determined to make housing justice a major issue in the upcoming State election. The...
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Issue #2015
The devil in the details of the “housing crisis”
In part one, we revealed that approximately one-fifth of households surveyed by the 2021 Census own nearly fifty per cent of the total amount of...
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Issue #2037
Call for housing justice
Housing is looming as a major election issue in the NSW election to be held in March this year. The housing crisis extends from the...
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Issue #2046
DINGO
The construction union, the CFMEU, has urged the Albanese government to ramp up its ambition on the Housing Australia Future Fund, which needs more investment...
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Issue #2072
NSW budget ‘miserly’ on housing
The 2023 NSW budget is a massive disappointment on housing. The NSW government’s miserly and inadequate approach to the housing crisis has dashed the hopes...
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Issue #2046
Budget must tackle housing crisis
Housing campaign Everybody’s Home says renters on the lowest incomes will still struggle to make ends meet with the federal government’s meagre rise in Centrelink...
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Issue #2047
Right to housing
On any given night in Western Australia over 9,000 people can be considered homeless, though many more are homeless and not counted as such. How...
Read moreNational crisis for Australian renters
The JobSeeker supplement ended on 28th March; four states have already extended their moratoria or do not currently have protections in place for tenants.
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Issue #2048
Rental crisis requires bold government action
As a new report reveals hundreds of thousands of Australians are in need of public housing while rents are expected to remain high for years,...
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Issue #2049
NSW: More people sleeping rough
Homelessness in Sydney has been steadily growing. Years of NSW neoliberal governments have created a perfect storm of conditions that lead to homelessness. It is...
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Issue #2065
Rental reform call to Senate inquiry
A coalition of more than 80 organisations across Australia has urged governments to act swiftly on rental reform in a joint submission to the Senate’s...
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Issue #2043
Renovate, don’t demolish!
“My complex at Franklyn Street in Glebe is 35 years old and needs refurbishing. The present NSW government wants to demolish it and replace our...
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Issue #2050
Public Housing in Glebe saved!
Pro-public housing group Hands off Glebe has been campaigning to stop the sell-off of public housing in Sydney’s Glebe area for years. Now they have...
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Issue #2048
Inequality deepens
New research shows one million people in NSW are living in poverty. With Western Sydney going backwards while Eastern Sydney is improving, inequality across the...
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Issue #2065
FUND PUBLIC HOUSING!
The housing crisis continues to deepen with an estimated shortfall of 640,000 houses. Recent interest rate rises are still to take their toll on home...
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Issue #2067
When rent freezes over
Rent is in the news lately, for several reasons. There is a national housing crisis. The Albanese Labor government, always keen to be seen as...
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Issue #2072
What’s housing for?
The Victorian Labor government has announced a big housing plan. Around ten thousand people will be moved from their homes – with no consultation, and...
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