Everyone deserves to have a safe and affordable home. But currently our governments and systems treat housing as a commodity to be bought, sold and invested in. The result is homelessness, housing insecurity and a rental crisis.
It’s time to fundamentally change the way we think about housing, and that our government treats housing as a human right.
That’s why the Greens are introducing a bill to add the right to housing into the Victorian Charter of Human Rights.
Adding the right to housing to the Charter would mean that future legislation and regulations, our Government departments, the police and the courts would all need to comply with and uphold the right to housing. It means that the affordability, accessibility and adequacy of housing would become core to government decisions around housing.
Housing is at the center of so much that connects us; our family and community. Housing impacts our access to health, education and work.
This is something MPs across the political spectrum should be able to agree on.
Add your name to the petition calling on the government to support this bill.