On the weekend just past the Australian Labor Party unveiled their “signature” housing policy for the upcoming election. If public opinion polls hold true, this policy will be the housing policy of the next government of Australia. Once again, the […]
31 March 2025 Submission Summary Recommendations Our central demands are to retain, repair, and reinvest in Public Housing. Summary The alternatives to Public Housing are not able to offer the same level of support, stability, and security that Public Housing […]
The Renters and Housing Union (RAHU) its members, and the Save Public Housing Collective (SPHC) condemn Victorian Minister for Housing, Harriet Shing’s recent announcement that public housing towers in Flemington and North Melbourne – the subject of an ongoing class […]
RENTERS AND HOUSING UNION – MEDIA RELEASEMonday, March 3 2025 Last week, Thursday 27th and Friday 28th of Feb, RAHU members stood in solidarity with public housing residents over the final days of the class action trial against the Victorian […]
RENTERS AND HOUSING UNION – MEDIA RELEASESunday, March 2 2025 The Victorian Governing has today announced they are formally investigating the conversion of the former VicRoads Headquarters in Kew. Minister for Housing and Building, Harriet Shing, has visited the unused […]
Invasion Day, marks the violent seizure of this continent by British colonial forces in 1788—a deliberate act of theft that initiated a system of exploitation and dispossession still at the heart of this nation. For First Nations peoples, it is a day of mourning, a reminder of the massacres, stolen children, and erasure of cultures committed in the name of empire.
On the 14th of December 2024, housing advocates and people experiencing homelessness occupied three adjoining empty properties in Brunswick, which have cumulatively been empty for almost 25 years. It was the first of many planned protests targeting wealthy landowners deliberately keeping their properties empty during a housing crisis.
We the undersigned stand in staunch solidarity with the Beananging Kwuurt Institute (BKI) and call for the immediate cessation of its eviction by the Uniting Church Australia. The eviction represents a continuation of the colonial injustices that this very site was once complicit in, denying Indigenous peoples a vital space for healing from the trauma caused by colonisation and the church’s own actions.
The inaugural issue of Housing, a publication born from the collective efforts and voices of the Inner South Melbourne Branch.
Towards the end of the 1930s, the Australian state entered a period of population growth, exacerbated by the end of the Second World War, the Baby Boom, and an influx of European refugees brought in under the White Australia Policy. […]
