For mob - Pay The Rent
Pay the Rent is not accountable to rent payers about how Rent is paid. But we are accountable to mob. We planned to have regular meetings to report back to community. The first meeting was held in February 2020 at the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, but Coronavirus stopped us holding further meetings. We’re trying to creatively think about how to do this community accountability.
All decisions about how Rent is spent and administered are made by a Sovereign Body – 8 Indigenous people. Link coming soon to see who is on this body.
Rent money is spent on both community’s survival needs and to fight for justice.
Justice projects
If you would like to access pay the rent funds for a justice project, please email contact@paytherent.net.au
Funerals and sorry business.
Pay the Rent is able to contribute towards funeral expenses, as well as general expenses during Sorry Business. If you would like to access funds to help pay for a funeral – click here
Heading: Monies distributed Feb-Sept 2020
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Pay the Rent is from grassroots for grassroots. No strings attached to government agenda. It assists Sovereign grassroots fight the many campaigns and struggles we face everyday.
Lidia Thorpe Indigenous activist
We all exist on lands which have never been ceded. Righting the past wrongs is a social responsibility we all share. Proud advocate of Pay The Rent.
Hana Assafiri OAM founder, Morriccan Soup Bar
We need to stop paying lip service to decolonisation and start Paying The Rent to the First Nations people
Clementine Ford Author & commentator
Pay The Rent offers all Australians an opportunity to work outside of government to right the wrongs.