https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/348c7e6e-768a-4856-a47f-4327d63ecf74 I made a video recently talking about the state of disrepair the Victorian public housing system is in, and has been in for decades. In it I talk about how the iconic Melbourne housing flats in the city have been underfunded and neglected honestly since their inception, through respective governments regardless of party. I spoke to efforts to try and reform and change how we do housing in this state, where since the early 2000s the state government has resolved to outsource a majority of its public housing services out to non-governmental and private providers. It does this in pursuit of this “social mix” urban planning model, where basically you integrate public housing residents, who are more likely to be disadvantaged, with higher income renters. As detailed thoroughly in the video, this approach doesn’t work - primarily because the profit motive, i.e. how can investors and developers make as much cash as they can, is what drives said investors and developers. This means that public good isn’t prioritised, but rather how much money can be made. That means negative outcomes like segregation, decreases in public housing rooms, and the delegation of responsibility of repairs, maintenance and upgrades to private providers, as opposed to the government. Despite their decades of neglect, tenants feel more comfortable and respected by the state government’s barebones services. Now at the end of that video I gave some, admittedly, very broad solutions and policy prescriptions, which to me at least, kinda stick out from the rest of the more detailed, interrogative video. So while I do agree with the general framework of policy I gave in that video, this video is going to be delving into specifics - what we actually need to do, to fix public housing in this city and this state, how we can use it to build counterpower. 0:00-1:34 intro 1:34-3:28 the problem 3:28-5:37 organisation 5:37-7:03 Tapiola case 1 7:03-9:39 Sweden case 2 9:39-13:05 decommodification? 13:05-16:37 Spain case 3 16:37-19:27 Germany case 4 23:15-29:21 conclusion script and sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UdTFmk3GjPNbm-RCkWwiLValSi41OFZDKtftVRBXUqw/edit?usp=sharing Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:16:09 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/348c7e6e-768a-4856-a47f-4327d63ecf74 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.