FIND SUPPORT
Community Union Defence League Vic Branch offers ongoing support to anyone in need. Including holding fundraisers for struggling families and for solidarity causes. We also supply people in the community with home-cooked meals, basic food stuffs, hygiene and sanitary products including masks and soap, clothing and blankets, as well as general support and supplies. We currently run several programs which include; Melbourne CBD - St Kitchen for those in need every Sunday @ 3-6pm. Dandenong - St Kitchen for those in need every Saturday @ 3-6pm.
Wire provides free support, referrals and information on any issue for all Victorian women, non-binary and gender diverse people.
The Need to Know Homeless Zine is a regular online and print magazine produced by people who are and were homeless.
HUSK is a small grass-roots collective that provides housing for people experiencing homelessness and / or domestic violence in the Melbourne area.
CoHealth offers a wide range of health support services.
Launch Housing offers Melbournians emergency shelter, crisis accommodation, specialist supports, and rough sleeping services so those at risk can secure a safe home.
Frontyard Youth Services is an integrated service model that addresses the physical, emotional and social needs of people aged 12 to 24. Located at 19 King Street in Melbourne's CBD, Frontyard is a central space for young people to feel safe. Here, young people can find emergency accommodation, get quality case management from staff and access a range of co-located and visiting
services.
Our Community Food Guide is a resource for community agencies or anyone in the community who needs information about how to access affordable, fresh and healthy food.
FIND KNOWLEDGE
Bruce Pascoe talks about Indigenous housing pre contact and challenges colonial ideals of ownership and use.as general support and supplies. We currently run several programs which include; Melbourne CBD - St Kitchen for those in need every Sunday @ 3-6pm. Dandenong - St Kitchen for those in need every Saturday @ 3-6pm.
The White Possessive - Aileen Moreton Robinson
How whiteness operationalizes race to colonize and displace Indigenous sovereignty. The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration.
Save Public Housing Collective's submission to the Inquiry into Homelessness in Victoria, which outlines the statistical and driving factors of homelessness - Libby Porter (Save Public Housing Collective)
Learn how to look for and setup a squat in this Melbourne specific guide. Squatting is the act of making use of disused and abandoned property. It allows people who cannot otherwise afford to rent or purchase a house or building to put an empty one to productive use.
The Victorian Government’s Public Housing Renewal Program (PHRP) aims to redevelop 11 inner suburban public housing estates in Melbourne. The redevelopment entails the relocation of residents, the demolition of the existing buildings and the redevelopment of each site by a private developer in partnership with a community housing provider. This raises significant concerns about the effectiveness of the policy in delivering housing in a time of severe housing crisis, the impact of displacement on residents and communities, and the assumptions underpinning the PHRP and the real estate model it deploys.
Housing, Activism and Local Government: The Bendigo Street Occupation – A Case Study chronicles an important yet unstudied chapter in Australian housing and local government. In March 2016, housing activists occupied a series of vacant homes in Bendigo Street, Collingwood, that had been acquired by the state for the abandoned East-West Link Project.
What happened next brought important lessons for housing activists and policy makers. The research distils these lessons through dialogue with former occupiers of Bendigo Street, local government staff, and councillors.
The proposals in the research set the ground for a new relationship of meaningful connection between housing activists and local government, including Councillors and staff involved in planning and all areas of social policy.
In Defense of Housing by David J. Madden & Peter Marcuse
In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need…
Australian Homelessness Monitor 2020
The latest Australian Homelessness Monitor shows the national homelessness rate is set to surge as short-term coronavirus and housing protections phase down. The 2020 Australian Homelessness Monitor offers an independent analysis of homelessness in Australia. It investigates the changing scale and nature of the problem, and assesses recent policy and practice developments seen in response
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“Planning solidarity? From silence to refusal” is a collection of short, critical, sobering essays by Libby Porter, Ananya Roy, Tanja Winkler, David Kelly, Kiera Chapman, and Crystal Legacy on how contemporary planning practices and planners silence and relegate; “make peace with violence”; and re-inscribe whiteness.