ACT Housing to evict single mother and children from home deemed unliveable five years ago

Alex and her four children have been living in a home where lead paint flakes into the baby’s cots and broken plumbing floods the carpet of her son’s bedroom.

Since falling pregnant five years ago, Alex has begged ACT Housing on an almost weekly basis to repair the property, which was assessed at the time as being “not fit for habitation”.

The 33-year-old said the property’s issues had been unaddressed until today, when ACT Housing delivered an eviction notice, saying Alex had a week to leave the condemned home, because it was too unsafe.

Despite the property falling into disrepair under the management of ACT Housing, the agency did not provide any alternative accommodation options in the letter.

Alex fears she and her children will be…