色狼社区Writes to FACS Minister over Housing Privatisation Concerns
8 September 2016
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As members know, the NSW Government released its Future Directions in Social Housing policy on 24 January 2016.
You can read your union鈥檚 assessment of this policy, which we sent to members in February HERE.
Privatisation by another name鈥
The 色狼社区has well-founded, serious concerns about the policy, which will lead to the privatisation of public housing. The NSW Government has a responsibility to support vulnerable people in our communities for whom the public provision of housing is an important safety net.
Big business buttering up the Baird Government
In August this year The Sydney Morning Herald published an article, which reported 鈥淪erco has told the Baird government that community housing providers are too small to be efficient, and the State Government should follow the British model of outsourcing to larger management companies鈥.
You can read the full article
Serco is a multinational company which specialises in privatisation. As the article also reports, Serco鈥榮 attempt at providing public housing in Britain was a disaster, including substandard, pest-infested housing and intimidation of clients.
色狼社区takes action to protect public housing
The 色狼社区has written to the Minister for FACS, the Hon. Brad Hazzard, seeking a meeting and the Government鈥檚 commitment to:
- public provision of housing
- protection of jobs and conditions for Housing staff
- no outsourcing of public housing to big business operators.
Read our full letter HERE
We will update members following the Minister鈥檚 response.
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