This photo was taken in a small space above a shop that housed more than a dozen international students. The hole pictured is in the combined laundry/bathroom and is covered up with wet boards which are slowly rotting.

Campaign aims

Call This A Home? is calling on the Victorian Government to introduce:

1. A set of comprehensive minimum standards to ensure the basic needs of all rooming house residents are met

2. More effective registration, monitoring and enforcement to bring hundreds of unregistered rooming houses into the system and ensure compliance with standards

3. A licensing system to regulate the management of private rooming houses to prevent exploitative practices

These are the 3 key reforms needed urgently to protect rooming house residents. The campaign has also developed a five point plan which can be downloaded here.

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