Community legal centres around Western Australia have issued a joint statement calling for a moratorium on all evictions from public housing "without grounds", saying vulnerable people are being left on the street with no opportunity to make a case to keep their homes.
Despite a Federal Court injunction preventing one family's eviction and a pending investigation by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), tenant advocates are speaking out after an Aboriginal man was recently evicted from his Perth public housing unit "without grounds" and is now living in a local park.
