Photo of the Day-I wanna live here

An image of recent work by guerrilla crafters from the Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle.

Concerned that there are increasing numbers of young people with nowhere to live while there is a ton of land lying around unused while the owners reap huge rewards as the property market delivers the rewards that are always guaranteed when a resource is scarce. And we were asking ourselves when the politicians are gonna realise that something needs to change when land values always go up at a higher rate than wage increases? There is a big connection between land speculation and the 27000 people who sleep it rough every night in Australia.

Our major piece was [a] fence cross stitch intervention. The site we chose is a corner sites in between two new townhouses, across the road from a primary school and with a bus stop outside. An extremely desirable piece of land just sitting there.

From the Radical Cross Stitch blog.

For more Australian engagement with housing issues, check out the I Want To Live Here film competition.

Photo of the day is just something we’re trying out- a collection of interesting and inspiring photos from here and there. Click here for some previous posts.