Housing
Shadow Ella Haddad today visited Tammy Temple who has had a priority housing
application for the past eight years.
Tammy is a
victim-survivor of family violence and has an un-related brain injury.
Ms Temple has
been living in a private rental but has to vacate by 27 February.
She is
concerned that she and her 9-year-old daughter will be left with nowhere to go.
She is being
considered for Rapid Rehousing, but she has not been given an indication of
when and if she will be housed.
She has been
regularly urged to expand her suburb selection by Housing Connect.
However, due
to her brain injury, she needs to be close to her family and doctor and has
selected suburbs accordingly.
Tammy is in
desperate need of housing and time is running out before she has to leave her
private rental.
Tammy is
doing all the right things and yet she is still waiting, due to this
government’s mismanagement of the housing system.
Labor would
prioritise repairing the 215 public housing homes currently in a state of
disrepair and not inhabited so that people in Tammy’s circumstances have a
place to live straight away.
Labor would also look to provide more emergency housing for people like Tammy when in government.
Ella Haddad MP
Shadow Housing Minister
