JohnS33

You want to fight the issues of any Drugs or Houso's report them to the police at the very whisper of trouble and send a letter of regret to Ringwood Housing Office. If every week a letter rolls in to the office at DHS they'll eventually see that the cost of responding is too great and remove the problem. No point just watching it unfold. It's the squeaky wheel that gets the oil. Proactive letter bombardment can be a powerful tool. There's also a mob called South East Housing Cooperative located in Dandenong that manage a number of houses around Mooroolbark. They don't do much so I would bypass them and send directly to Ringwood or the DHS. Eventually someone at the helm will cut funding to these would be housing management schemes. Didn't know about the one in Blackburn Road but I'm aware of Dryden Concourse and Eliot Court areas. Name and shame list just got larger. The funny thing is DHS think that the general public are aware of these places. Public housing is a joke!

After reading through my post a second time I took it upon myself to do some research into just how much Public Housing is in the area of Mooroolbark. I found a really good resource called microsuburbs.com.au and as it turns out there aren't that many in Mooroolbark at all, it equates to about 1% and they are mostly found in one hotspot (9%) within the streets surrounded by Hull Rd, Taylor Rd and just past where Russell and Greenslopes line up. Which explains why it has been a Liberal Seat for so long. So it's mainly that area to the right of Hull Rd Mooroolbark heading toward Lilydale and ends at the train bridge at Mooroolbark Rd. So in the Dryden Concourse area there might be only 2 or at most 3 so I was way off there. Actually if the gardens were maintained they'd all look great through there!

Also, if you really are having trouble with Public Housing Tenants there is hope, forget the Ringwood Housing office or South Eastern Housing Cooperative. Write to the Director of Housing - Department of Health & Human Services 50 Lonsdale Street Melbourne VIC 3000. I'm not opposed to public housing tenants if they have truly fallen on hard times like a mortgage payment failure or acquired a disability. It's the ones that are generational welfare dependants who know how to use the system and have criminal side activities. It's time that policy was in place to deal with this sort of thing. Also the Minister for Housing (Victoria) should really step up and get these properties fixed and the gardens manicured. This way the minister isn't pulling down the neighbourhood. That a reason to get involved and protest against Public Housing criminal activity and here's why.

In a report I found online and verified : "DOVETON is one of the six suburbs which make up half of Victorias 6506 prison population, according to a report released this week by Victorias Ombudsman. In January (2015), Victoria recorded its highest ever prison population of 6506, half of which comes from just Doveton, Broadmeadows, Corio, Frankston North, Maryborough and Morwell."

Doveton and other suburbs mentioned are very large Public Housing areas. Doveton makes up 40% of its suburb this way. So the evidence is clear about where the break in originate. Also the latest spake of crime has suspiciously pointed to Public Housing tenants that the Labor Party have not addressed.

I make a correction, Mooroolbark isn't at all a large Public Housing area and even the new unit developments are Public Housing free, so all in all not bad. But if you want Mooroolbark to remain a low crime suburb write to the Minister for Housing (Victoria) and the Director of Housing. A good policy from Yarra Ranges Council with a system set in place to stop bad behaviour and evict unruly tenants is the way to bring change. Under the Victorian Charter for Human Rights we are protected from neighbours that flout the law and landlords can get rid of bad tenants on that basis. Typically, governments tell everyone to obey but when it comes to their own responsibilities they flounder. I would like to see Public Housing given to people who are decent and seriously in need or sell them off to families who are desperate to get into the market.

The taxpayer shouldn't be paying the bill to encourage this sort of thing and they should ashamed that they haven't protected the mortgage payers, taxpayers and the community from Public Housing tenants that don't deserve our tax support, criminal behavior is unacceptable in a private rental situation it should be so for Public Housing also. Makes those with some sort of authority over Public Housing look like complete idiots. Just shows a degree doesn't always equate to intelligence now does it. Anyway I hope they fix this problem soon.