STAGGERING AMOUNT OF PUBLIC HOUSING PROPERTIES SIT EMPTY WHILE PEOPLE LIVE ON THE STREET OR IN CARS
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Well done channel 9's 'TODAY' show for exposing this national scandal
The stats
NUMBER OF EMPTY PUBLIC HOUSING PROPERTIES
VIC 1,279
QLD 877
NSW 1,482
ACT 222
SA 1,662
WA 759
NT 258
All State governments have a responsibility to immediately fill these properties.
These assets do not belong to political parties to give to their 'developer mates'. They belong to the people of Australia.
Friends of Public Housing Vic have solidarity with homeless people. Unlike Housing Ministers who live in their ivory towers and for whom homelessness is academic - or worse a nuisance -
we talk to lots of homeless people and hear their stories.
I will share some of these stories in a future post.
When I was recently in Melbourne I was shocked to see so many homeless on the city streets, I can't believe how hard hearted politicians have become, eradicating homelessness should be high on the agenda of most important things to achieve. Why don't they train some of the unemployed and homeless to build low cost insulated housing
ReplyDeleteYes this is horrific that they have these empty houses while people freeze on the street
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