For more than 30 years, Teresa Timber has lived in the same house in Belyuen, a remote Northern Territory community west of Darwin.Remote Territorians living in public housing brace for rent increases under a new system unique to the NT
The NT's housing department says the new system is simpler, and includes a "safety net" for people suffering rental stress"They just showed us a paper and that was it," she said. Ms Timber, who has lived in the same four-bedroom house since 1987, discovered her rent would leap from $78 per fortnight — automatically deducted out of her disability pension — to $560 per fortnight.Belyuen residents say they were disappointed by the news.
Blame 100% labour , yet ABC fails to mention it biased towards labour 100%
Why aren’t Stamp Duties and property taxes used to build new public housing to suppress property values and reduce rent pressures.
Are we to believe this lady has lived alone in her heavily subsidised 4 bedroom home for 44 years in a region plagued by overcrowding and a lack of housing? Or that no other household residents can make any contribution from their welfare payments? Better reporting please.
U mean the rich r pilfering as much as posssible at the expense of the citizens & possible future customers to ensure they can buy that 10th Ferrari, abcnews investigate & do ur job msm media r complicit in pilfering this country auspol
I feel sorry for this woman as it appears she has no friends & family. abcnews auspol
People are calling landlords greedy but It looks like plain old capitalism to me.
Albo told me my power bill will be lower and he will go halves in my home loan. Great work ALP 👍
That is a big increase, but a 4 bedroom house should is needed for a family. I would hope that they are offered an alternative before just jacking up the rent like that, but I do think people that are in the system seem to just stay, even when their situation changes
Things change, deal with it. 1986... Imagine if... Nah, not going to.
Landlords are lazy parasites
“Only Labor can lower the cost of living” Albo 2022 Interest rates UP August 15 We are paying $4billion more on mortgage payments
All part of the script it seems.