Poor maintenance in public housing

One of the damaged pipes that the NSW Department of Housing and wealthy maintenance contractor Spotless had left in a terrible state of disrepair at a public housing residence in Waterloo in inner city Sydney.

FIGHT FOR PROPER MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC HOUSING

STOP THE NEGLECT AND STOP THE SELL-OFFS

THE SUFFERING OF A PUBLIC HOUSING TENANT

The tenant, sixty year-old Virginia Hickey, wants her story told as she knows that many others living in public housing are going through similar experiences. Ms Hickey (known affectionately as “Aunty Bowie”) has lived in her house in Douglas Street in the inner city Sydney suburb of Waterloo for many years. She is the primary carer for two of her grandchildren and, additionally, two younger grandchildren, one with a serious diabetic condition, stay with her on weekends.

28 June 2014: Members of the Illawarra-based Public Housing Union, Millers Point public housing tenants, supporters of public housing and Trotskyist Platform rally in Auburn to defend public housing. The main rally banner reads: “Stop the Sell Off of Public Housing! Smash the Attacks on Services That Working Class People Need the Most. Massively Increase Public Housing – Just Like What China Is Doing” — 28 June 2014: Members of the Illawarra-based Public Housing Union, Millers Point public housing tenants,
supporters of public housing and Trotskyist Platform rally in Auburn to defend public housing. The main rally banner reads: “Stop the Sell Off of Public Housing! Smash the Attacks on Services That Working Class People Need the Most. Massively Increase Public Housing – Just Like What China Is Doing”

The family’s ordeal actually began several years ago. Maintenance on the home was so neglected by the housing authorities that the whole place was falling apart the stove was not working, the taps were faulty and everything from the roof to the walls to the flooring were in a terrible condition. Eventually, after pressing the Continue reading FIGHT FOR PROPER MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC HOUSING. STOP THE NEGLECT AND STOP THE SELL-OFFS →