Our House Swap

Just a little dash of common sense will fix it...

2011-09-03T18:14:00.000+10:00

A few facts... Only a very small percentage of Public Housing dwellings are 1 bedroom units. Consequently, there is a HUGE percentage of 2 bedroom dwellings being occupied by single people. Fact 2: It is NOT EASY to find a swap. Even with the super efficient Our House Swap website it can still be hard to find something that suits your needs. Fact 3: It is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to get a transfer

HNSW breaches tenant's privacy

2011-08-18T16:11:00.003+10:00

How broken is the official Housing NSW Mutual Exchange system? It's hard to tell because it's virtually impossible to get a straight answer from HNSW. Apart from having to wait nearly two years to get a response, the official Mutual Exchange system requires the tenant to forgo all privacy in order to participate in the program. Draconian!! From the Mutual Exchange Form DH3003: If you are

Tenant wins against HOUSING

2011-06-29T09:20:00.000+10:00

With all the publicity lately about Queensland Housing failing to address anti-social behaviour problems, I have been flooded with emails asking where the CTTT story is. It's in the archives - and Blogger doesn't make it easy to navigate. So here are the relevant articles: Where it all began - August 2009 The WIN The damage Ferals do to our community Making Housing accountable Happy reading.

Revealing preliminary results from tenant survey

2011-06-22T15:36:00.000+10:00

MORE than 72 per cent of public tenants currently affected by anti- social behaviour have not had their problem resolved or addressed appropriately by State housing departments, according to the OHSBlog survey. A massive 65 per cent found Housing staff to be "unhelpful and disinterested", and most had been putting up with noisy neighbours for more than two years. Anti-social behaviour,

5 Minute survey on Maintenance, Mutual Exchange and Anti-social Behaviour

2011-05-27T22:34:00.000+10:00

One of the headaches when dealing with bureaucracy is that you are always made to feel like it's one-against-the-world. It's hard to get your opinion heard when nobody is listening. But when you add your voice to the crowd, very soon our mutterings turn into shouts. Please take 5 minutes to fill in this survey about YOUR tenancy. If we all pull together, we can move mountains! Please Share

Indigenous housing group backs eviction laws

2011-05-19T16:27:00.000+10:00

From ABC The Goldfields Indigenous Housing Organisation has welcomed new legislation proposed by the Western Australian Government to address unsuitable behaviour in public housing. The legislation would allow the Department of Housing to call on the magistrates court to evict disruptive tenants. Goldfields Indigenous Housing Organisation CEO Julia Shadlow-Bath says the new laws will give

Evictions of HomesWest tenants rises

2011-05-18T16:51:00.000+10:00

From ABC News The Department for Housing has evicted more than 150 people in the past six months as part of a crackdown on tenant eligibility.In 2009, the State Government announced a review of the eligibility criteria for state housing tenants, to ensure they did not exceed income cut offs.A total of 153 people have been forced to leave since November last year,The Housing Minister Troy

Another landmark ruling to help control the Ferals

2011-05-11T12:55:00.001+10:00

From Domain.com.au Come in and feel the noise: landlords to pay for rowdy tenants Photocopies stickytaped to city lamp posts offering dirt-cheap, shared-room rentals in luxury apartments could soon be a thing of the past after a landmark court ruling. Previously, landlords who crammed partying backpackers and students into houses and apartments could ignore complaints about noise, passing them

WA: Unruly tenants to face tougher rules

2011-04-05T12:10:00.001+10:00

ABC News - Tuesday, 05 April, 2011 The state government is to toughen up its three strikes public housing policy. Under the policy introduced in 2009, Homeswest tenants could be evicted if they were involved in criminal or disruptive behaviour on three occasions. The Housing Minister Troy Buswell says under the new rules, there will be three categories of anti-social behaviour. He has told

Worthy - not just Needy

2011-03-21T12:42:00.000+11:00

As the Ferals increasing take over public housing and as the public servants stand by and watch the communities spiral into ghettos, we ask what can be done to properly MANAGE public housing and their occupants. I can hear the bleeding hearts now - "but the Ferals will be homeless if we evict them". Well so be it. Perhaps that is exactly what is needed - a stint of homelessness - to make them

How to make Housing accountable - the Basics

2011-03-17T12:56:00.002+11:00

I have had many requests from other victims of anti-social neighbours to produce a "how to" guide... so here it is: How to put Housing on notice that you are not going to take this anymore! Firstly - print out this statement in large letters and stick it on your fridge; say it to yourself every morning and repeat it to every Housing staff member you encounter: I have a RIGHT to quiet enjoyment

Tenant SUES Housing NSW - and WINS!!!

2011-03-09T19:00:00.004+11:00

Last August we reported on a tenant who was taking HNSW to the CTTT for their failure to deal appropriately with her anti-social neighbour. We are pleased to announce that SHE WON !!! It took 7 months to go through 3 court hearings - the only defence offered by Housing was a handful of fabricated incident reports with incorrect dates and fictitious events. With over 100 pages of evidence

Keeping up with the FERALS

2011-03-05T11:27:00.000+11:00

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. The rotting putrid pile in the backyard The patio The kitchen which was only one year old The carpet which was new

Where does all the money go?

2011-02-10T22:32:00.001+11:00

From a HNSW tenant: I've been waiting 13 months to get a downpipe fixed. Simple job. It's been assessed by the Assets Team but they say they "have no money". They haven't had any money for 13 months. Every month it's the same excuse. Now, because of the leaking downpipe, the window has rotted. Now they have to find the money for the downpipe AND the window. It took about 3 months for the

The ultimate LIMP FISH response.

2011-02-07T16:36:00.001+11:00

"... creating harmonious communities..." Sounds nice, doesn't it. Should be fairly easy to achieve. Putting like minded people together creates harmony - strengthens a community. It's the concept behind the Over 55's units. It’s the strategy used with various ethnic groups: language, customs, support and culture… tenants are much happier where they feel they “belong”. The opposite is the

Good tenants forced to vacate for Christmas

2010-12-21T09:54:00.000+11:00