Author Archives: VPTA

18 Public Housing units open at Heidelberg West

Today 18 families on the public housing waiting list or transfer list were able to [...]

Tenants want to down size, but told they don’t qualify

Dissatisfaction with the transfer system is one of the most common reasons for tenants to [...]

Chairperson’s Bulletin No. 4 – 2016

Chairperson’s Bulletin No. 4 – 2016 New VPTA Board member The VPTA Board has appointed [...]

No Braybrook filming for Struggle Street

Recently Maribyrnong Council received an application from the producers of Struggle Street to film in [...]

No progress at Markham Avenue

  The VPTA and the AAC Public Tenants Group visited the site of the Markham [...]

Public Accounts and Estimates Committee

  Every year the Minister for Housing appears before a Committee of the Parliament, the [...]

Chairperson’s Bulletin No. 3 – 2016

‘Housing Blitz’ recommended by Royal Commission into Family Violence The report arising from this Commission [...]

A focus on education

  This week in The Age newspaper there have been a series of articles on [...]

Transfers and Mutual Swaps Policy

The VPTA has updated our policy position on Transfers and Mutual Swaps. In updating our [...]

Help for tenants experiencing family violence

  The Tenants Union of Victoria has released a new on-line tool to help tenants [...]