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.
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. […]
In June 2024, RAHU contributed a written submission to the Victorian Labor government’s Minimum Standards for Rental Properties and Rooming Houses. The state government opened for submissions relating to the new minimum energy efficiency and safety standards proposed for rental […]
RAHU calls upon the Victorian State Government to enforce protections through the Residential Tenancies Act 1997.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
RAHU at Peninsula Voice Forum, November 2022 by Lisa RAHU held an information stall at the Peninsula Voice Community Forum, in Mornington on 8th November. The forum attended by 200+ people was the second in a series addressing homelessness and […]
