My first reaction upon reading that the New South Wales gov of Mike Baird is to privatise NSW Public Housing was pretty much "OMG! Nooooooo!". But after I calmed from the initial shock, I thought perhaps it's actually a plan that will work. What we have now is a broken system, starved of money, not serving the community that needs it.
For example we're stuck in our present circumstance on about a 10-15 year waiting list for affordable public housing. Having no choice but to pay private rent during that time. That private rent being presently over 50% of what we get. Housing NSW though has their hands tied by their policies and can't help us. Except to move to a cheaper place (yeah right good luck there eh).
Literally anything would be better than what we've got now. Perhaps it will work, at least more functionally than the present system. It can get pretty depressing going for days on end without a cent.
The Baird government is promising a $22 billion construction boom will flow from an historic decision to privatise public housing in NSW.
The construction of tens of thousands of private dwellings is expected to help ease Sydney's housing affordability crisis by putting downward pressure on rents.
Ageing housing estates will be bulldozed and rebuilt by private property developers into communities where private tenants and home owners outnumber social housing tenants by a 70:30 ratio.
A third of government housing stock will be transferred to community housing organisations, who will be expected to offer support services to assist social housing tenants rebuild their lives.
The Baird government will rely more heavily on private rental subsidies to house families in crisis, including women fleeing domestic violence, so they can avoid a public housing waiting list which has stretched to 60,000 families. Sydney Morning Herald
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