Hello 2024
The earth makes another turn, and we still have a huge number of homeless and rough sleepers, massive rent hikes and criminally poor conditions for many of the houses we call homes in Australia – a wealthy country that can […]
Tag: housing crisis
VICTORIAN HOUSING PACKAGE – MONEY FOR MATES, NOT THE STATE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 22nd September, 2023 This article is in response to Labor’s Housing Package, which can be found here. RAHU supports the principles of protecting renters’ rights. The principles of this proposal take some positive steps toward this. However, […]
HOUSING AUSTRALIA FUTURE FUND II – MILQUETOAST CAPITULATION
HAFF’s Unclear Path On the 11th of September, the Greens announced that with an extra $1,000,000,000 of ‘direct investment’ into social housing – The Social Housing Accelerator – they would support Labor’s ‘Housing Australia Future Fund’ (HAFF). Labor’s HAFF will […]
AUKUS, no budget for housing, billions for war.
RAHU members join in solidarity with the community groups calling for the Federal Government to cancel the AUKUS submarine deal. As the rate of people in this country sleeping on the streets continues to rise, $368 BILLION is being spent […]
Community occupies public housing estate slated for demolition.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 8 July, 2023 RAHU would like to make a statement of unconditional support for the Save Barak Beacon campaign. Below is the unedited media statement released by the group. Activists have taken up residence in the disused homes […]
HOUSING AUSTRALIA FUTURE FUND – A WHOLE LOTTA NOTHING
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 25 June 2023 On 9 February 2023, the Albanese Government introduced the Housing Australia Future Fund bill (HAFF), a bill intended to increase access to affordable and social housing. The HAFF seeks to create an investment fund […]
‘Pricing us out of a home’ Submission to the Cost of Living Senate Select Committee Enquiry
Issues with private rental housing and recommendations towards housing stability RAHU February 2023 Introduction Australia’s housing crisis is worsening, after the pandemic has exacerbated the struggles faced by the third of Australia’s population who rent their home. Renters have fast […]
Portugal’s Public Housing and rent reform
Report from International Union of Tenants World Conference, Lisbon, Portugal Eirene Tsolidis Noyce – April 2023 During the International Union of Tenants World Conference, delegates were provided the opportunity to visit one of Lisbon’s newest public housing projects. This project […]
Calling out the real homewreckers; why women aren’t at home in Australia.
“Adequate housing is a human right enshrined in international human rights law. Failing to recognise, protect, and fulfil the Right to Adequate Housing results in the violation of a plethora of fundamental rights including the Right to Work, Education, Health, […]
Climate Action for Safe Housing
Melbourne’s rapidly growing outer suburbs in the North and West are being built on floodplains that get re-zoned for residential housing for huge windfall profits. With skyrocketing housing prices and falling wages these outer suburbs are some of the only places many people can afford.