1 May, 2025
Post by FAIN.
Cover photo by Mike Bird.
Our summary of an article in the Guardian by Cait Kelly, showing how grim community housing standards can be for many living in privatised community housing or for those still on waitlists, yet again tells us why government building more public housing is urgently needed.
As FAIN continues to highlight in our public housing campaigns, governments and mainstream media in Australia use the term “social housing” interchangeably to mean both ‘public housing’ and ‘community housing’, when usually they mean ‘community housing’ or at other times the vaguely defined concept of “affordable housing”.
Public housing is NOT community housing.
Public housing is a public good and a public asset, and it belongs to the people.
Read more about this on our public housing campaigns page.
Our position on public housing is clear:
“FAIN stands in full support of public housing as a fundamental human right, the only long-term, rental affordable housing for people on low and very low incomes, and an essential pillar of a fair and inclusive society.”
FAIN calls on the Australian government to fund state and territory governments to address the urgent need for investment in public housing to meet growing demand.
See our position of public housing for more.
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