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Ep7 - The Housing Crisis, Wealth Gaps, and Community-Led Solutions to the Commodification of Basic Human Rights w/ Chels Hood Withey
On the 7th episode of Mycelial, we speak with Chels Hood Withey.
Chels Hood Withey is a passionate Community Organiser, Advocate and Creative Problem-Solver dedicated to equity, justice, and systemic change. As the founder of House You, a Housing-First Campaign, Lead Organiser in the Community Disaster Action Group and Northern Rivers Organiser of 350 Australia, Chels brings a unique perspective to the intersection of housing justice, climate resilience, and community empowerment.
In this episode we talk about the fact that access to a safe home for yourself and your family is a most basic human right and the moral deficit of the commodification of human rights under capitalism and colonialism.
We also talk about the actual numbers, stats and facts around the housing crisis that we face in Australia today and the tax cuts, negative gearing and institutional inertia that perpetuates it. A system that solely benefits wealthy individuals, making it easy to accrue and hoard more homes, driving up property prices and living costs effectively making it harder and harder for lower income households to be able to enter the buying market for a family home.
We discuss also the explosion of short stay websites like Airbnb and how it renders good housing stock off limits, affecting supply and sky rocketing rental prices. And the many embarrassingly simple solutions that the govt could implement tomorrow to start fixing the housing crisis and its effect on the widening wealth gap.
Chels also shares wins that they have succeeded in like the community-led initiative that they spearheaded to get a Dignity Village built to house people in need in the local area. Local council has approved it and it is slated to be implemented this term of Government proving that people-powered projects can work.
Chels finishes with a squatters handbook for my anarchists out there and ways you can be a part of the housing first legion transforming our society into one that prioritises people and planet over profit and privilege // and much more
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Massive Gratitude and Respect to Chels for their time, action and wisdom.
You can learn more and get in contact with them through their instagrams @chelshoodwithey or @house_you__ or you can find Chels or House You on Facebook.
You can also learn more about House You at their website houseyou.org or email on [email protected]
If you feel you are receiving something from the podcast, a way you can give back is to follow and give us a 5 star rating or review on podcast platforms. Also, following on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mycelialpodcast and Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@mycelialpodcast helps its growth and message. If you feel others could receive something from it too, please share an episode with a friend or on social media.
At this point, this project is 100% self funded by me and my recycled clothing business NIRANIA so you can also support my business on instagram https://www.instagram.com/nirania_collective
Also big thanks to Juman for the music
https://open.spotify.com/artist/77pkM8fFPgStKyD3G2Qr4B
This podcast is broadcast from the First Nation ancestral sacred lands of Bundjalung in so called Australia. I would like to pay my respects to the Elders, past, present and emerging, and any indigenous Elders listening in. I’d also like to acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded in this country. Always was, always will be aboriginal land.
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By Nikkita RaOn the 7th episode of Mycelial, we speak with Chels Hood Withey.
Chels Hood Withey is a passionate Community Organiser, Advocate and Creative Problem-Solver dedicated to equity, justice, and systemic change. As the founder of House You, a Housing-First Campaign, Lead Organiser in the Community Disaster Action Group and Northern Rivers Organiser of 350 Australia, Chels brings a unique perspective to the intersection of housing justice, climate resilience, and community empowerment.
In this episode we talk about the fact that access to a safe home for yourself and your family is a most basic human right and the moral deficit of the commodification of human rights under capitalism and colonialism.
We also talk about the actual numbers, stats and facts around the housing crisis that we face in Australia today and the tax cuts, negative gearing and institutional inertia that perpetuates it. A system that solely benefits wealthy individuals, making it easy to accrue and hoard more homes, driving up property prices and living costs effectively making it harder and harder for lower income households to be able to enter the buying market for a family home.
We discuss also the explosion of short stay websites like Airbnb and how it renders good housing stock off limits, affecting supply and sky rocketing rental prices. And the many embarrassingly simple solutions that the govt could implement tomorrow to start fixing the housing crisis and its effect on the widening wealth gap.
Chels also shares wins that they have succeeded in like the community-led initiative that they spearheaded to get a Dignity Village built to house people in need in the local area. Local council has approved it and it is slated to be implemented this term of Government proving that people-powered projects can work.
Chels finishes with a squatters handbook for my anarchists out there and ways you can be a part of the housing first legion transforming our society into one that prioritises people and planet over profit and privilege // and much more
...........................................................................
Massive Gratitude and Respect to Chels for their time, action and wisdom.
You can learn more and get in contact with them through their instagrams @chelshoodwithey or @house_you__ or you can find Chels or House You on Facebook.
You can also learn more about House You at their website houseyou.org or email on [email protected]
If you feel you are receiving something from the podcast, a way you can give back is to follow and give us a 5 star rating or review on podcast platforms. Also, following on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mycelialpodcast and Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@mycelialpodcast helps its growth and message. If you feel others could receive something from it too, please share an episode with a friend or on social media.
At this point, this project is 100% self funded by me and my recycled clothing business NIRANIA so you can also support my business on instagram https://www.instagram.com/nirania_collective
Also big thanks to Juman for the music
https://open.spotify.com/artist/77pkM8fFPgStKyD3G2Qr4B
This podcast is broadcast from the First Nation ancestral sacred lands of Bundjalung in so called Australia. I would like to pay my respects to the Elders, past, present and emerging, and any indigenous Elders listening in. I’d also like to acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded in this country. Always was, always will be aboriginal land.