Public housing activists and supporters spent their last day camping out at 82 Wentworth Park Road in Glebe on Monday, before suspending their protest and calling for the block of apartments to remain in public hands. They had been camping out since last week.
Since the recent election, the NSW ALP State Government have been moving to demolish the small complex for redevelopment and move exisiting tenants out. The ALP had promised to save public housing from privatisation prior to the election.
Monday’s action saw supporters gather at Wentworth Park Road to hear speakers talk about their ongoing campaign to protect public housing, including independent journalist, Wendy Bacon, who spoke about past campaigns, such as the protest to save Victoria Street in Kings Cross from ‘development’ during the 1970s.
Currently, there are over 35,000 homeless people in NSW with 50,000 on the wait list for public housing. Rents have sky-rocketed in recent times, forcing more and more people out onto the streets.
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