Roominations Spike, Kelly, Tony, Daz, Zoe and John.

This show is all about Bemdigo St - the 2016, 8 month occupation of former East West Link houses that were occupied as part of a campaign to advocate for them to be put on the public housing register. Instead, they have systematically been put on the private rental market or sold. And the homelessness crisis continues. Jasmine, a young squatting activist and budding filmmaker is in the process of making a documentary film about housing in Australia and will incorporate the Bendigo St protest. Kelly sits down to have a yarn with her about it. Hope you enjoy the show!

On this episode of Roominations we follow Kelly down to the Bellarine bayside town of Portarlington where she speaks to single mum, anarchist and community activist Rebecca, whose story of slumlord neglect in her tenanted home has some words of wisdom in it that are good for us all to hear. We'll also eavesdrop on some of the awesome local women  of Portarlington involved in the Food is Free Laneway. They've got a good little community going on down there and it's great to hear their reflections on what it means to them. Hope you enjoy the show!

On this episode, Kelly broadcasts some community voices from the '10 Days in November' public housing vigil last November. This is all to whet your appetite for sleeping out on the steps of Parliament, again, for tonight's 24 hour vigil #stepstoahome We then cross LIVE to Seattle to speak with a number of homelessness activists. Pretty exciting! Seattle has the third highest homelessness population in the United States. Depressing stuff. We need to keep fighting and in that spirit we thank all of you who donated to this year's Radiothon. Your donation powers shows like Roominations and the mighty 3CR as a whole. Thank-you.

Broadcast on 25th April, ANZAC Day, Australia. What does the ANZAC celebration leave out when we think of imperial Australia's wars? Where is the mass acknowledgement of innocent people displaced by these ongoing wars? Where are the public holidays for other important events in Australa's history? Who Decides? / What's going on with public housing maintenance? Cleaning contracts worth millions of tax-payer dollars yet estates left in neglect.  Tenants' lives treated as a political football by political parties and with disdain by corporate newspaper readers / The Notre Dame fire backlash - billions of euros in rebuild donations offered by wealthy families and corporations, but where is the will and the money for affordable housing? What makes a national treasure? Who Decides? / Update on the Medically Supervised Injecting Room (MSIR) - another public meeting called, negative media / Brownlea Towers (Perth) public housing estate demolition - housing and healthy communities are more than bricks and mortar..

Medically Supervised Injecting Room (MSIR) community meeting at the All Nations pub 10th April 2019 // Police tactics to drive out homelessness in the CBD // Rent increases over the past 5 years // and all related, systemic issues..