A remote community in rural Western Australia (Image: AAP/Richard Wainwright) PUBLIC HOUSING CLASS ACTION A class action lawsuit has been lodged against the Housing Authority and the state of Western Australia on behalf of public housing residents in WA’s remote Indigenous communities, the ABC reports. Residents of up to 3,000 dwellings are accusing the state government of allowing public houses to fall into an unlivable condition, with some saying that repair or alternative housing has not been provided in some cases for more than two years. 65-year-old Anne Lenard’s roof was ripped off by a storm in 2022 and she has been forced to live in the kitchen of a local “homemaker building”.
“A homemaker building is where we cook tucker if there is a party for our children ...
it’s supposed to be [a community building], not a place where you’re sleeping,” she told ABC’s 7.30 . “I sleep in the kitchen and my little girl has the storeroom.
” A similar class action in the Northern Territory late last year found that the government there was liable for distress caused by a failure to repair public housing. Meanwhile in the commercial housing market, the AAP reports it’s not just boomers benefiting from the housing boom, with Gen X and older millennials among those making record profits from selling properties. The median profit for a sold house is now $395,000 across the combined capitals, according to property website Domain, with 96% of all properties now turnin.