Bad Tenant Disease: Will Govt Bow To Canberra Neighbourhood-Poisoning

causeway hall, a property of historic significance, in the causeway neighbourhood
Causeway Hall April 2015 photo by Nick-D is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Causeway Hall, an historically listed property and part of the social housing neighbourhood proposed for demolition in Australia's capital district. It opened in 1926.

Will the government inevitably bow to developers eyeing The Causeway — a public housing estate extraordinarily close to where it’s all happening in Australia’s capital city?

What an extraordinary profit-making bonanza for a lucky housing construction enterprise should the public housing be simply obliterated! Tacky bungalows may be replaced by high rise luxury condo towers. Heaven on earth comes to Canberra.

But why? Why should a quiet enclave of modest housing simply be erased?

Bad tenants. As the bulldozers circle, amp up the trash talk. Bad tenants gotta go. That’s just what’s happening in Canberra.

This destructive public brainwashing excuses social housing management, and shifts the blame for public housing deterioration to what is explained as degenerate flaws in the genes of those who need public housing at some time in their lives.1

This extraordinary excuse of convenience has seen public housing on several continents brought to its knees, a spectacular backfire as the need for truly affordable housing grows and grows.

And yet, still it goes on. Read more at ABC News: Canberra Developers Are Circling The Causeway Public Housing Estate But Residents Want To Stay

Footnotes

  1. Management ‘doubts’ about tenants are not limited to Canberra. See: Social Housing Future Challenge: Overcoming Decades Of Management Contempt. The surviving tenants of the Grenfell Tower fire have a different perspective: ‘Nobody Listened to Us!’ Grenville Tower Fire Survivors Demand A Legal Voice For All Social Housing Tenants. This post lends support to the idea that management would do well to look at its own practices: Public Housing Revisited: Just Who Was Disrespecting Who?

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