The rising cost of living is forcing students to make tough choices between paying rent, buying food, and staying warm, leading to increased stress and anxiety.
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The worsening cost of living crisis will continue as even the strongest measures like the billions put into social housing will take years to come through- assuming they are implemented well.
There is a complete lack of focus on fundamental necessities for the students living at Regiment.
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.
