State Housing Action Network
10 April 2015

SHAN launches National Petition to fight state house sales

The newly formed State Housing Action Network (SHAN) is today launching a nationwide petition opposing the National government’s plans to sell state houses and calling for a major state house building programme to address the housing crisis for tenants and families on low incomes.

No-where in the world has the “market” provided quality affordable homes for people on low incomes. Only governments have the resources and capacity to invest and meet this critical social need.

Day by day the situation gets worse with state house numbers decreasing and more and more families forced into the clutches of National-Party-supporting slum landlords (no minimum standards apply) overcrowded houses, and cockroach-infested caravans.

The government is doing its best to abdicate its responsibility for low-income families. SHAN is determined to fight these policies every step of the way.

Plans are being made to deliver this petition to parliament later this year.

Today’s petition launch follows the SHAN letter sent to Social Housing Providers earlier this week calling on them to reject the National government’s attempts to sell them state houses.

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