Our city is an unfair place.

Brisbane needs to be a fairer city.

Renters have a raw deal with Queensland lagging behind on renters rights.

Graphic of rental conditions. Australian leases are shorter (6-12 months, vs 2-3 years or indefinite). Our notice periods are shorter (1 month, vs 2 or 3). Our leases can be terminated for more reasons. Pets are restricted. Minor alterations, like hanging pictures, are very rare.

Our homes and streets are hostile places to people with mobility issues.

Half of Queensland Rail stations not fully accessible

Anyone in a wheelchair or with a pram is unable to easily travel by train from almost half of Queensland Rail train stations.

Our city doesn’t have enough options for people to downsize and comfortably age in place.

Keeping a roof over our heads - BCEC

Housing cost pressures continue to dominate as a key concern among Western Australian households, despite a general shift towards more favourable housing market conditions in Western Australia in recent years. Housing affordability estimates have not trended in the same direction... Read article

And our social housing waitlist grows every year wth no end in sight.

Number of families on social housing waitlist continues to grow in Queensland, QCOSS says - ABC News

QCOSS says there has been a surge in the number of families waiting for social housing, with the government's current approach being labelled a "failure of epic proportions".

While the vast majority of people will live in privately built and owned housing for the foreseeable future, we want to see much greater investment in non-market housing — whether that’s public and social homes, a cooperative housing sector or new public-commons developers.

We want to see fairer rental regulation, housing and homelessness services and better investment in making homes and neighbourhoods more accessible to everyone.

Housing abundance means abundance for everyone, not just those lucky enough to have the money and health for it.

Graphic of a building and streetscape cross-section. A wide variety of activities are depicted.