Posts tagged Housing
StreetCare videos: voices from the street

A new project of the Homeless Persons’ Legal Service and its consumer advisory group, StreetCare, uses video interviews as a way for StreetCare members to share their stories of homelessness. Called In their Words, the project will be included in training programs for people who work with homeless clients. The videos can also be shown to policymakers and politicians to improve their understanding of individual experiences of homelessness.

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Loss of Tenant Advocacy Services Unfair, Possibly Discriminatory

“People with disabilities will be badly affected by the Qld state government’s axing of the Tenant Advice and Advocacy Service (TAAS) program” said Mr Ken Wade of disability advocacy organisation Queensland Advocacy Incorporated. The Housing Minister Dr Bruce Flegg announced the termination in late July, and services are expected to cease operation from Wednesday 31 October 2012.

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Homelessness law needs major rethink, says PIAC

The Federal Government’s draft Homelessness Bill 2012 needs a major re-think in order to have a positive, practical impact on people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. That’s the message delivered by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) to the Federal Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness, Brendan O’Connor.

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Housing Rights: HRLRC Seeks Leave to Intervene in Director of Housing v Sudi

On 6 September 2010, the Human Rights Law Resource Centre filed an application for leave to make submissions to the Victorian Court of Appeal in the matter of Director of Housing v Sudi.  The matter is an appeal from the decision of Bell J, sitting as President of VCAT, in Director of Housing v Sudi [2010] VCAT 328, in which his Honour held that the Director of Housing acted unlawfully under the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities in seeking to evict a Somali refugee and his two year old son from public housing without providing any justification.

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Homelessness: Request for Urgent Action from UN Special Rapporteurs

Report to and Request for Action from UN Special Rapporteurs From 31 July to 16 August 2006, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing conducted an official country visit to Australia.  In his Preliminary Observations regarding implementation of the right to adequate housing, the Special Rapporteur noted that there is a ‘serious, hidden national housing crisis in Australia’.

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