Author Archives: VPTA

Defining Affordable Housing

For many years the term “affordable housing” has been used and abused. Is expensive housing [...]

Chairperson’s Bulletin No. 4 – 2017

  New Board Members Earlier this year, the VPTA welcomed a new Board Member to [...]

Transcript of Minister Foley at PAEC

  On 31 May 2017 the Minister for Housing, Disability and Ageing, Martin Foley appeared [...]

Policy Confusion on Watsonia Grove

Over the last 18 months the Victorian Public Tenants Association has been talking a lot [...]

Less Talking – More Building

In Victoria, we are great at setting targets for increasing public housing supply. But when [...]

This tenant fought for her rights – And won.

With such limited resources, the VPTA generally can’t offer direct representation in Tribunal hearings.   [...]

VPTA WELCOMES BUDGET SPENDING ON PUBLIC HOUSING

The Victorian Public Tenants Association has welcomed increased spending on public housing in this year’s [...]

Chairperson’s Bulletin No. 3 – 2017

What the VPTA Stands For: Earlier this year, the VPTA Board decided there was merit [...]

Chairperson’s Bulletin No. 2 – 2017

New public housing delayed The former Huttonham Estate (Preston) was demolished a few years ago [...]

A flurry of housing policy announcements.

  Over the last weekend we saw four new housing policy announcements from the Victorian [...]