The Ignorance Of Housing

For the past few years, Housing Department tenants, nearby tenants, guests and visitors have complained to NSW Department of Housing with many issues:

• Drug Dealing

• Drug Use

• Tenancy Issues

• Aggressive/Violent Tenants

• Tenants forcing other tenants to do crime - Some tenants have forced other tenants to conduct illegal activities from within their own premises. To refuse, results in death or being beaten close to death.

• Tenants forcing others to do crime against other people - Some tenants are forcing other tenants to conduct crimes against members of the public and Housing residents.

• Numerous - There's many legal and illegal activities occurring in this area of Housing properties.
There have been numerous complaints from members of the public and Housing tenants. The Housing Department continues to ignore pleas of help from tenants and non-tenants. Only recently, they've begun taking notice.

Within the coming weeks, Dept of Housing has organized a barbecue lunch for tenants who live in the problematic areas. Tenants have named it 'Dog Day'. Meaning: The BBQ is just an excuse for tenants to dob each other in. The same tenants feel: whoever attends the BBQ are the people who have been dobbing them in.

One tenant said "I keep to myself, yet there's always some sort of complaint made about me. I can't understand why they won't keep to themselves and stay out of other people's lives. But, I will be watching from afar, so I can confirm if those are the people who've been causing me problems".

The Department of Housing thinks they're doing the right thing by all tenants, when they're not. They're actually causing more problems for their tenants. Most Housing Dept tenants love their privacy, they do not like outsiders interfering with the way they live their lives.

Unfortunately, Housing's intervention has come too late. Many individuals and families have been affected by their inaction. Members of the public are now taking it to the streets and advertising on location-based applications, such as: Spraffl. Spraffl was created for the community to post various activities, such as:

• Advertising Events

• Advertising Public Announcements

• Advertising Problematic Locations.

• Observations of what goes on in a certain location.

• Numerous - Complaints, Compliments and more...

The Dept of Housing's inaction doesn't stop there, it has expanded to other areas within the Hunter Valley. After Celia helped some of the tenants with their issues, she began creating things that would help all tenants. Then, she was contacted via the Facebook site, about a couple of tenants who had been suffering from similar problems. It is for reasons like these, that Celia began helping tenants and creating such sites like Duty of Care Petition for all Australian residents and tenants. And, the Facebook page where she was contacted by Australian's needing similar help.

Housing didn't set up the properties properly, they've housed the wrong types of people with each other or the wrong age group. Each of these, takes a toll - common sense should have been used when housing people. This is where the assessing part is needed, to assess which tenants need Housing and where. Once they have sorted out this problem and organized where tenants should be placed, only then can society begin to feel safe and for tenants to have the knowledge of knowing that they have been housed with people who may share similarities.

Location:Mayo Street,Jesmond,Australia