FG said:
I live across the road from a Dept of housing tenant ….. he has repeatedly vandalised our property by slashing tyres and scratching cars parked outside, he gets drunk and yells abuse at me and my small children. If it’s not bad enough that taxpayers subsidise this lunatic but DOH have repeatedly refused to act.
I have resorted to writing to Pru Goward, the NSW Minister for Housing and still nothing has been done…. We are now left with the prospect of having to sell our home, it will cost us thousands to move. My husband and I work hard and to see this man, who has never worked a day in his life, continue to leech off taxpayers and get away with the most extreme anti-social behaviour is sickening……
Not long ago a campaigner for increasing “newstart” payments to single people indicated how little money would be left over after renting the cheapest one bedroom flats in theSydneyarea. No suggestion that there should be alternative accommodation at a much lower cost (in a place of the government’s choosing). An anti – social person as described above clearly needs to be accommodated in prison like conditions with some level of supervision/attempt at rehabilitation and probably no cash payments (food and travel vouchers in lieu) as well as working to cover those costs. Otherwise they can just be inflicted on new neighbours if/when the current ones manage to get the DOH to move them on.