With public housing being in short supply for as long as I can remember, is it ti e we rethink how it is delivered.

No doubt we all know a single mother, living in a house fit for a family.

Perhaps public housing needs to be more like public rooms, so we can at least have more than just a single person living in a house, even if they have a kid or two.

Perhaps public housing need to be more lime. Parts of the US where they are apartments.

After all, our population is too small for us to end up with ghettos.

At least something like this could address some of the concerns about housing shortages.

rechtub,

What a strange suggestion, in that you seem to think a "single parent" is some sort of lone entity...."even if she has a kid or two"....?

What you appear to be saying is that a "family" consisting of one parent isn't really a family at all, and that maybe we should pack em into high-rise ghettos like they do in the U.S. because for some strange reason you believe that our population is too small to fashion itself into ghettos.

Your type of lower middle-class pseudo supremacy turns my stomach.

I go further than rehctub. I have always felt public housing is immoral.

We get people who have won the lottery of access to public housing, & get to bludge on the rest of the population to the tune of 2 or 3 hundred dollars every week, for the rest of their lives. This is immoral.

All too many better people, who have tried to do the right thing by the community, & themselves, by providing their own housing, are loosing the fight to support them selves & buy their own homes, due to the increasingly ridiculous tax burden being placed on them. Placed on them in part to keep the bludger element in comfortable housing.

If we are to provide this windfall to the no hopers, let's at least do it as cheaply as possible.

There is no reason to do it in large cities with high costs. For those who don't have jobs, it should be in diminishing country towns, where half a dozen houses can be bought for the price of one city house.

The lease should have a definite sunset clause, & any tenant who causes any damage should be made to pay for that damage. Repeat offenders should be black listed.

As with all bludgers, the more you give them, the more of them you get.

I always get a chuckle out of butcher, hasbeen then comes and turns it to a belly laugh.
I missed the point, seeing the title thought at last!
See we once had much more public housing, I agree with the principle.
Not the some times results, slums occupied by those content to do nothing about it.
But it is not all like that,a rural township, very nice country town, had public housing in the 1950,s and 60,s till the 1980s.
COUNCIL sold at almost no deposit housing at affordable prices.
That community today owes much the the Bravery and forethought of its once leader.
Housing the poor or unfortunate makes us community, human, a nation.

I've never lived in public housing, but I think if we expect to live in a reasonably balanced society then it helps if most of the poor people aren't reduced to eating dung after paying their rent and/or living in a ditch.

I do get a laugh from petite bourgeois whingers like butcher and Hasbeen who, having attained a little latitude due to their "incredible virtues", love to toot their own trumpets while laying the boot into people residing a few rungs down the pecking order.

Carry on boys, you're a hoot!

To our lefties, I recall a few years ago much gnashing of teeth among the welfare lobby, when it was found that a Labor lady member of the NSW parliament was refusing to give up her housing commission unit in Glebe, because it was convenient. She had got her subsidy for life & wasn't giving it up for anyone.

Typical lefty, wanting the public to pay their way. They make me sick.