Phil Andrews, a solicitor at the Darwin Community Legal Service who has been advocating for Ms Campbell, said evictions of public housing tenants were on the rise in the NT, despite a critical shortage of affordable homes and some of the highest rates of homelessness in Australia.
"One is a lady who's blind in her 70s and doesn't know when people have come into her house because she can't see them. And then [is] obviously struggling to get them out, because she can't see them."If anyone from [public] housing comes to us who has been evicted for anti-social behaviour, we look into it because there are a lot of systemic issues involved."
A spokeswoman from the Department of Territory Families and Housing said, "It is a requirement for government that each tenant has a transitional plan to leave the public housing system. This transitional plan will include alternative accommodation".Ms Campbell said arguments often broke out with visiting family members after she told them they couldn't stay at her house.Ms Campbell said the first eviction letter arrived in March while she was at her sister's funeral.
"I was at the court by myself … I didn't have any support to tell my situation. I was nervous. I felt 'I'm alone here'."
Headphones for loud tv may help combat noise complaints. Relatives turning up & being loud is annoying. Restraining order? Indig expect 2B allowed to stay as it'fits in the cultural understandings of obligation to care for kin & family, that sharing of resources.'
Always somebody else's fault
We were becoming a third world country long ago and now we are.
I'm ok with this, I eventually had to move out of social housing because no action was taken on noisy anti-social even criminal behaviour by my neighbour's. Now I'm paying $190 a week more rent for a private rental.
TV late at night, or the boys playing video games … she said I drew a lot of attention to my house, she was complaining about my visitors anti-social behaviour? LOL Somehow i think Phil Andrews, a solicitor at the Darwin Community Legal Service is not telling the whole story.
Why should my tax dollar pay for free housing I had to work hard and pay for my own house. Get a job,
If only they were as worried about eviction before it became a problem, we wouldn't be here.
Sad
No problem if you play by Societies Rules .
Disgraceful where is the GOVERNMENT when you need it
Things gonna get worse, see the warning for yourself at: Revelation 6:6 and Matthew 24:7.