The Wire

The Government’s new workplace reforms come into affect today. Workers at the bottom end of the income scale don’t have their job to worry about but also their house. Job instability exacerbates the stress felt by public housing tenants. For instance in New South Wales low income earners in public housing have been further hit by changes to publci housing introduced in December 2005. The reforms mean that tenants who work will now have to pay up t 30% of their income, as opposed to a flat rate of 25%. Resident of the inner Sydney suburd of Glebe held a forum on the weekend on the future of affordable housing. Stephanie Raison spoke to Annie Atkinson and Darcy Byrne from Labor for Affordable Housing.