VIDEO
30 Mar 2016 | Kieran Bennet Media
Homeless Persons Union occupies vacant EW Link housing
11 May 2016 | Homeless Persons Union Victoria
An empty house that cost the tax payer 1 million dollars is re appropriated for the people. Now a family have moved in, which could add two years to the life of someone on dialysis, as they are now much closer to the hospital.
11 May 2016 | Homeless Persons Union Victoria
Steph explains the events that led up to being evicted by a government department and vicpol from the unused house on Bendigo street Collingwood and shares her hopes and thoughts about the protest action, the government, the broader community and the main stream media roles in the humanitarian crisis created by homelessness.
11 May 2016 | Homeless Persons Union Victoria
A member of HPUV shares a union perspective about some of the systemic causal factors that create homelessness and the effects this has for people experiencing homelessness.
5 Jun 2016 | Homeless Persons Union Victoria
Filmmaker and staunch HPUV and #bendigost ally, the amazing Stella Chrysovergi, has created a film documenting the experiences and people which make up the political protest on Bendigo St, Collingwood, which has seen members of the HPUV and allied activists occupy publicly-owned houses which have sat idle for up to 2 years.
2 Jun 2016 | Homeless Persons Union Victoria
Luci describes her experience being constantly harassed by random local council workers and businesses trying to access the public housing asset she precariously calls home in the #bendigost political occupation.
6 Jun 2016 | Homeless Persons Union Victoria
Meet Ange - one of the new residents of #bendigost, as she tells us about her homelessness experience.
21 Jun 2016 | Homeless Persons Union Victoria
When bricks and mortar are turned into HOMES, gardens can flourish and kids can play. Let's make sure these publicly-owned properties are put on the public housing register.
23 Nov 2016 | The Age
Last stand of the Bendigo Street squatters ends in handcuffs
14 Jun 2016 | Homeless Persons Union Victoria
Luci speaks her truth about staying in a condemned factory, due to the substandard assistance she was offered by housing support services and what the support she found on Bendigo Street Collingwood has meant for her lived experience.
6 Jul 2016 | Homeless Persons Union Victoria
Yarra City Councillor for Langridge Ward, Stephen Jolly, gets behind the push to have the #bendigost houses put on the public housing register. Houses for People, Not for Profit. Housing is a Human Right.
3 Aug 2016 | Houses Need People, People Need Houses
Police threaten to send dogs and gas on Jude Fawley, a resident of 117/12 Manningham St, Parkville (one of the homes occupied as part of the Houses Need People, People Need Houses action).
3 Aug 2016 | Houses Need People, People Need Houses
TV report about the Houses Need People, People Need Houses occupation of the EW link properties and the attempted evictions in Parkville over the past couple of days.
15 Aug 2016 | Homeless Persons Union Victoria
HPU Press Conference and Speak Out 12 8 2016 part 1
16 Aug 2016 | Homeless Persons Union Victoria
HPU Press Conference and Speak Out 12 8 2016 part 2
24 Aug 2016 | Homeless Persons Union Victoria
People speaking their truth about homelessness and the political action occurring on Bendigo Street, Collingwood.
28 Oct 2016 | The Age
East West Link homes: Bendigo Street squatters told to vacate immediately
2016 | Homeless Persons Union Victoria