There is a complete lack of focus on fundamental necessities for the students living at Regiment.
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To effectively address Australia’s housing crisis, we must move beyond the superficial supply-side approach and embrace a more comprehensive strategy.
Organised by the Action for Public Housing, speakers called for substantive reform to rectify the worsening state of the housing crisis.
International House is a snapshot of student life, suspended in amber. A relic from a time when the University valued the student experience over surplus dollars.
Some of rally’s key demands were for the state and federal governments to implement a rent freeze, build more public housing, and end for-profit student accommodation.
Earlier this year, Ron Hoenig, Member for Heffron, sent a letter to residents arguing that by voting for Labor, they had the “opportunity to stop the sell-off of the Waterloo Public Housing Estate and protect [their] home.”
The government’s response to the housing crisis must account for the complexity of the housing market, in lieu of a dogmatic push for increasing supply in big cities.
The key demands included the immediate introduction of a rent freeze, the construction of more public housing, and reversing the privatisation of public housing.
What little power that we do have, we must zealously make use of.
Only sustained, widespread anger is enough to break the complacency that holds Australian housing policy in a perpetual state of inertia.
