Arch Lobby VIC

Next month: With @archiprocess, a virtual discussion about workers' cooperatives, cooperative networks and architecture with Peggy Deamer (@mdeamer), Fooi-Ling Khoo (@oofarchitecture) and Dave Kerin (@Earthworkercoop). Reply/DM with any questions you'd like to ask the panelists!

Confused about social vs public vs community housing? Here's a handy guide that is very pertinent atm. rahu.org.au/public-social-… Join RAHU to demand an end the private rort, and demand public housing 👇rahu.org.au/join @savepublichous

rahu's full statement: rahu.org.au/media-release-… tldr: public housing now. follow @savepublichous for more info

We couldn't be more excited about this! DM us if you're interested in attending!

Residents of the Victorian Public Housing Estates in COVID lockdown are being denied access to interpreters due to TIS locking out interpreters. This is unfair, stop denying people their right to communicate. TIS YOU MUST ACT NOW! #fairwork #unionstrong #solidarity #humanrights

@DrCameronMurray Brilliant paper. Just to say, if you haven't caught it already, on pg 3 paragraph 2: "Just as the reduced supply in these periods was a response to demand shits." Technically correct!

What if I told you that Australia's housing supply has exceeded population demand for the past decade or more? I argue in this paper that Australia's housing shortage is a myth used to justify planning changes that benefit politically savvy landowners. osf.io/r925z/

Building social housing is an urgent priority. The number of social housing dwellings has barely grown over two decades. Building 30,000 new units today would cost between $10b and $15b, boost the construction industry and help tackle homelessness. #housing #homelessness

Take the Work & Wellbeing survey peeps. We really want to understand your experiences so far and hopes for the future. (I know it is a long survey, bit it will be worth it! And imagine how much time I put into making it happen.)

1/Architects & planners have been accepting blame for helping to build the racist, white supremacist, overpoliced cities that have contributed to the present trauma. And they should! But in this moment of self-examination, I hope designers will look to the lessons of the past.

Funding social housing won’t provide windfalls for developers. But it will keep construction workers on the job and help some of Australia’s most vulnerable. @BrendanCoates ow.ly/rnNr50zWcfj #housing #auspol

@_Parlour This is a really fantastic initiative!

Join @Arch_Lobby for a roundtable discussion and workshop led by architectural workers organizing for a safe return to the office! Saturday May 30, 2-4pm EST Register to receive event link! —-J-O-I-N—-U-S—- shorturl.at/jswGY

So, we’ve declared a climate and biodiversity emergency. Where to from here? dlvr.it/RWhMzg

The union movement has lost a giant with the passing of comrade Jack Mundey. As a union leader, Jack Mundey led the militant BLF in NSW with courage and vision. 1/4

Vale Jack Mundey. A giant of the union & environment movements, Jack demonstrated that when workers come they can achieve great things. Jack's memory lives on in all unionists and activists who continue the fight he led. Jack made Australia better. #JackMundey #ausunions

Tune at tonight at 6:30PM for Democracy at Work, a discussion about workers' cooperatives and architecture with @mdeamer, @oofarchitecture and @Earthworkercoop youtu.be/DsxjOR8D6XQ via @YouTube

"[...]in architecture firms, the myth of the calling suggests, if not assumes, that *all* architects are passionate workers, and firms in turn expect them to undertake unpaid labor." failedarchitecture.com/death-to-the-c…

The greater the workers voice the better a company does. A bit like our country. Give working people a voice and better decisions are made vice.com/en_ca/article/…

SURVEY | Professional Architects Australia have launched a survey to better understand the effect COVID-19 is having on architectural workers and their levels of employment. Read the full media release here 👉ow.ly/aVzP50zp2S6 #architects #survey #COVID19 #JoinTheUnion

I just signed the petition, calling on @ScottMorrisonMP & @AlboMP to work together to make sure everyone has a home. You can too: everybodyshome.com.au/petition-morri…

The JobKeeper wage subsidy is starting to roll out and already we're hearing far too many stories of bosses trying to abuse the scheme and rip off workers. Well, we're not going to let them get away with it. Dob in a dodgy boss at jobscammer.com.au #JobKeeper #ausunions