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 […]
“On the Western Australia State election” It’s a busy time for politicians in Western Australia, as both Federal and State elections loom on thehorizon. Already, we can see hollow, soulless expressions of politicians adorned with too-wide smiles onstreet corners. In […]
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 […]
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.
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. […]
“a small number of people … backed by the Greens political party, who have demonstrated that they don’t want particularly vulnerable Victorians to have the dignity of a new modern home”. – Victorian Premier, Jacinta Allan, via The Age, October […]
While the government’s Build To Rent bill proposes to put more money in the hands of speculative housing investors and building conglomerates, governments across the country continue their plans to tear down and sell off public housing.
This week, the media is awash with glowing reports on the federal Labor government’s latest “measures” attempting to “ease pressures during the cost-of-living crisis”. A 10% increase for those receiving rent assistance, while rents claw ahead further, by 11% on average.
