PUBLIC HOUSING CLASS ACTION
A class action lawsuit has been lodged against the Housing Authority and the state of Western Australia on behalf of public housing residents in WA’s remote Indigenous communities, the ABC reports. Residents of up to 3,000 dwellings are accusing the state government of allowing public houses to fall into an unlivable condition, with some saying that repair or alternative housing has not been provided in some cases for more than two years.
Sixty-five-year-old Anne Lenard’s roof was ripped off by a storm in 2022 and she has been forced to live in the kitchen of a local “homemaker building”.
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