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Jun 25

Empty nesters in public housing shouldn't be forced to move//Alan Davies//Crikey

According to a report in The Australian last week, the Queensland Housing Minister, Dr Bruce Flegg, is proposing to forcibly move public housing tenants with empty bedrooms into smaller dwellings.

…There’s a good case for a more efficient matching of dwellings with household size, given there are as many as 10,000 technically homeless households on the waiting list. However forcing current tenants to share with others they don’t know is unacceptable.

I’m not sure if [Queensland Minister for Housing] Dr Flegg is really contemplating that option or if it’s a beat-up by the Courier Mail. Either way it’s unconscionable and he should formally and firmly reject it publicly.

see also: a similar move in NSW (via leonineantiheroine)

Posted at 3:16 PM 3 notes Tagged: australiaqueenslandhousingpublic housing

  1. tanacetum-vulgare said: um… well they could try incentives rather than force. “move into a 1bdrm and it’ll be cheaper anyways and we’ll even give you half priced rent for a year, pay moving expenses, etc.” something like that. a lot of ppl would go for it.
  2. ourcatastrophe posted this