Further to our story about where all the money goes... the DoH tenant who trashed her 2 bedroom house and was rewarded by HNSW with a nice new 4 bedroom property, left this mess and a ~$5000 damage bill for Housing to take care of.
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| The rotting putrid pile in the backyard | The patio |
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| The kitchen which was only one year old | The carpet which was new |
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| The walls which were painted recently... | And now it is boarded up and uninhabitable |
The Feral problem affects everyone - DoH staff; the Good tenants; the thousands on the waiting list who would be grateful to have a lovely home like this; the local community watching their streets deteriorate into slums; and the taxpayer who ultimately foots the bill.
Seriously - what can we do about the Ferals? How do we make someone like this accountable for their behaviour and actions?
If they are turfed out of Housing altogether they just become homeless - and that just passes the buck to Charities.
When there are children involved, they are most likely already under the eye of DoCS - understaffed and overworked.
Where mental health issues are a factor, The Health Dept foots the bill.
More often than not, it is left up to the Police to become the front-line troops.
What can Housing do to manage their own problems and not just deflect it to other services?
Is there a practical and real solution?
this is the typical pathetic thing that happens! y wasnt she made to pay for the clean up etc?? so not fair, I am wanting a 4 bedroom but cant get one because 'there arent any available' yes thats because people who dont even need the room or dont deserve it live in the nicer bigger places for some really stupid reason, housing is back the front and inside out!
ReplyDeleteI believe we have to get togethor and do some creative thinking, we all know it is awful and that we hate it, no point repeating the same old thing. This article poses the questions that a show like 'Insight' on SBS, would illuminate to one and all out there...but how do we get that sort of coverage? I don't know, does someone else know? There is a comedy going to start on ABC TV called Housos, yes, about us, this sickens me, and, is already raising hackles, not just in public housing...does anyone know how we could use this Housos show to spotlight on our reality?
ReplyDeleteI think with this new show Housos, it will be really important to distinguish between the two classes: The Ferals and The Normal tenants.
ReplyDeleteIf we can create the label and get it to stick in the media, then we can avoid being lumped into the same "houso pool" with the ferals.
A bit like not all motorcyclists are Bikies.
i dont know why ive being made wait,12mths to get a security sliding door fixed,they told me i have to wait till its time for a property inspection,they wouldnt look into it even though i live alone,i contacted my local member,unfortunatley ,i was not home the next day,but was left a note on the front door,it was from the area manager,she only wanted to chew me out about going to local mem.its been 14 mths now and still not fixed!
ReplyDeleteIf I remember correctly, security features MUST be fixed by public housing. When I moved and found none of my windows locked or stayed closed, a new neighbour told me to mention to public housing that, seeing as it was a security feature it would have to be done straight away...they probably didn't like it but they got it done, in any case you have every right as a citizen to go to your local member, that is why he/she is your local member.
ReplyDeleteOnce again HNSW rewarding bad behaviour. It would be nice if they looked after tenants that maintained there property instead of wasting the money on these individuals...
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm sick of maintaining their property. When we first moved here, I mowed the lawn and edges every 10 days. Cleaned windows and washed the house regularly. Then it rained for 3 weeks straight and my wife was having a miscarriage. A new "woman" became our area manager. She drives down the street at 60km/hr and decides our lawn is long. She never picked on the 50 others in the street that only mow twice a year. Writes us a letter saying, "The state of the lawn is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE" and "if it is not brought to a sufficient standard by such-and-such a date YOU WILL BE EVICTED."
ReplyDeleteHuh!? This was the first time in five years I hadn't mowed the lawn! Then they (eventually) send morons that break more things than they repair. So now I maintain their property when *I* feel like it - just like everyone else in the street.
Depressing yes, but why fight against the tide.
THE FERALS! i dont care if they are mentally ill, drug addicted,or had shitty lives as children. you are wot you are, a burden to society. good people are being overlooked while the 'ferals'are being rewarded for their incompetance. put them on the street. its called natural selection. y should my children have to be exposed to such lowlifes!!!
ReplyDeletedoh hve refused to give me window screens on windows that dont lock properly and house is less then 5klm from a garbage tip so cannot hve any windows open in spring or summer due to excess flies
ReplyDeleteDitto, Ditto Ditto. Sick of the hopeless and lazy being rewarded and the functioning and decent being overlooked. Have to say though, my local office is really heplfull and approachable. Security matters always fixed asap. Our local maintainence company are slack and inefficient but must work cheap because they are still given contracts. Even when we recently got new paint and a new kitchen (after 20 years)the process was a stuff up from the start and we were made to feel as though we should be so grateful that we would accept sub-standard work, by the company not the DHS.
ReplyDeleteI am a property manager and hear this all the time... every tenant thinks they are perfect, and nobody deserves to have a property with housing except THEM. Get off your butts like I had to when I was a single mum, get a J O B and earn MONEY that is not handed to you for NOTHING and rent a property on the regular rental market and stop whinging. I know DOH do nothing on their properties, but why sit there and whinge when you dont have to put up with it? Move. Get motivated, get a job, and MOVE
ReplyDeleteKelly