affordable housing

Housing and homelessness workers push for better deal

Workers in the housing and homelessness sector are one of the most undervalued and unappreciated workers. Angela Carr reports.

Germany: Berliners vote to expropriate corporate landlords

Berlin鈥檚 referendum to expropriate corporate landlords is a watershed moment for rental politics and a rare win against international real estate capital, reports Thomas McGath.

Socialist Alliance to field ticket for Victorian Senate

The Socialist Alliance will field two long-term activists for the Victorian Senate on People and Planet before Profit platform, reports Chloe DS.

鈥楨xpropriate mega landlords鈥: A radical solution to Berlin鈥檚 housing crisis

Federico Fuentes speaks to housing activist Thomas McGath about the campaign to liberate housing in Berlin from the market.

Greens want the City of Sydney to lead on affordable housing

A key focus of The Greens' campaign聽in聽the City of Sydney聽local government elections聽is council investment in聽affordable and public housing.聽Jim McIlroy reports.

Minimum wage rise, reforms fail low-paid and guest workers

Unions and community organisations need to step up the push for real change, including a meaningful wage rise for low-paid workers, argues Alex Bainbridge.

For an ecosocialist solution to the housing affordability crisis

The property-owning class has come out of the pandemic richer and more determined to get even wealthier. Peter Boyle takes a look at what can be done to revert this situation.

What councils could do to address housing and homelessness

There are solutions to the housing crisis, but they require public investment and a shift away from the聽commodification of housing, argues Jacob Andrewartha.

After a lifetime of discrimination older women slip into poverty

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought systemic inequality to the fore.聽Pip Hinman writes that聽there is one group who are particularly at risk 鈥 older women.

Britain: Labour promises public housing 鈥榬evolution鈥

The British Labour Party has promised to 鈥渒ick-start a housing revolution鈥 as it unveiled its election manifesto, including commitments that would bring about Britain鈥檚 biggest public housing construction program for decades.

Full house for Victorian Socialists election launch

More than 350 Victorian Socialists members and supporters packed out Preston Town Hall on April 6 to launch the party鈥檚 federal election campaign.

Community calls for homes not prisons

A 鈥淗omes not Prisons鈥 event in Fitzroy on July 18 attracted more than 100 concerned public housing residents and community members from across Melbourne to the Atherton Gardens public housing precinct.

The aim was to highlight the staggering inequity of expenditure by state and federal governments on prisons compared to public housing for the vulnerable in the community.