Personal possessions and bedding were unceremoniously dumped onto a council rubbish truck by grinning council workers (until the camera came out) despite protestations from bystanders.The homeless camp was on private property on the recently vacated Westpac site which has been a homeless resource site since 1991.
Council workers stated that they had been ordered to remove the property by Mick Fish, a long standing City of Sydney council worker who masquerades as a homelessness worker-but a central figure in the theft of homeless peoples property by council over many years.
The City of Sydney"s failure to adequately plan for affordable housing is a major driver of homelessness in the city as well as surrounding urban areas. There is little effort by the city to ensure adequate housing for the many low paid or even middle income workers needed for the city and its businesses to function. Surrounding municipalities are treated by the city as its economic bantustans with workers forced to commute daily to and from their locally unsustainably paid jobs. The State government and City of Sydney fail to manage the problem of homelessness with a "zero problem end game" as the target. Part of the desire by State government to forcibly amalgamate councils is to grab Botany-in-the-flightpath as the "affordable housing zone."
None of the NGO's Charities or Federal government agencies have a concrete plan to end homelessness-because they need homeless people as tokens to collect money for themselves with.
Meanwhile Lizzie Chris and the Martin Place campers will come back tonight to their property gone...stolen by a heartless City of Sydney
