‘Double Whammy Of Distress’: Vulnerable Public Housing Residents Are Being Forcibly Moved Out

Public housing residents in Australia are increasingly being forcibly transfered into non-government community housing, which residents and advocates say divides communities, disrupts families and only adds to growing demand. “They split the neighbourhood, it caused friction between people and … people were just moved away without knowing where they were going,” Sydney community housing resident Marie Chase-Sillars told PEDESTRIAN.TV. Chase-Sillars was forcily transfered from her estate in Macquarie Park