MEDIA RELEASE: RALLY AGAINST EVICTIONS!
RALLY AGAINST EVICTIONS! Save Ewart St + Warren Road Marrickville, Save Waterloo. Sunday December 14, 12.30pm at Marrickville Town Hall
RALLY AGAINST EVICTIONS! Save Ewart St + Warren Road Marrickville, Save Waterloo.
Sunday December 14, 12.30pm
Start at Marrickville Town Hall, march to Ewart Street, Marrickville
Private and public tenants threatened with eviction at Ewart Street, Warren Road Marrickville and Waterloo public housing estate are joining forces to oppose their imminent evictions together.
They will rally on Sunday December 14 to demand landlords, local council and the state government stop the evictions in three sites.
Erina Delinicolas, Better Future Coalition spokesperson is a tenant threatened with eviction at Warren Road, Marrickville. They said “tenants in Ewart St, Marrickville will be evicted in January because their landlord wants to turn the block of apartments into short term holiday stays (Airbnb). I am being turfed out of my cheap apartment in Warren Road Marrickville because the landlord wants to build an expensive apartment block and make exorbitant profits.”
Rachel Evans, Action for Public Housing spokesperson said, “We are in an unprecedented housing crisis because governments are giving developers land and tax breaks. The demolition of public housing in Glebe at 82 Wentworth Park Rd and the evictions of tenants at the Waterloo public housing estate is nothing short of criminal. We have 10,000 people becoming homeless every month and yet, as Cameron Murphy in The Great Housing Hijack explains, we have the most amount of housing per person in Australia’s history.”
We need the council and the state government to stop these evictions and force the landlords to deliver for public housing and private renters,” Evans concluded.
Erina Delinicolas, said “both Ewart Street and Warren Road Marrickville sites are within the Inner West and the Council just passed a so-called “Fairer Future” which is a proposal to build 33,000 mostly private, expensive apartments. With only a small portion within this 33,000 apartments, designated as “affordable” housing. Affordable housing is 80% of market rent - so not affordable. These evictions are just a taste of what is to come. Because of this pro-developer plan, we will see more evictions and demolition of relatively affordable housing as landlords and developers cash in. We need housing for people not profit, “ concluded Delinicolas.
The rally demands the landlords back off from eviction plans. It calls on the Inner West Council to deliver on their so-called “affordable” and pro-young people housing promises and resist the eviction with the tenants. It demands the state government stop privatising public and council lands and build housing for people, not profit and guarantee young renters genuine housing security.
Organised Action for Public Housing & Better Future Coalition, Friends of Erskineville, Sydney Socialist Alliance, NSW Socialists, NSW Greens
Contact Erina 0468 584 498 and Rachel 0403 517 266
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1381610533639668