Housing campaigner Jordan van den Lamb, also known as Purple Pingers, is the Victorian Socialists’ lead Senate candidate. He spoke to Green Left’s Chloe DS about solutions for the housing crisis and tactics to build renters’ rights and housing affordability.

***

What made you stand up for the rights of renters and those without secure homes?

I was incensed by the injustice and seeing it made me want to do something about it. At the time, during COVID-19, I was working in child sex abuse. I wanted to talk publicly about the injustices I was seeing but I couldn’t. The next closest thing [to talk about] was renting. So that’s what started it.

See also

How can the housing crisis be solved? And how much do the solutions that you might have challenge capitalism?

The good thing is that there are so many ways that we can solve the housing crisis.

We’ve had hundreds of Senate and parliamentary inquiries into the housing crisis and thousands of recommendations that all say the same thing, over years and years. It’s actually........

© Green Left Weekly