TWO disability pensioners will be evicted from their Brisbane community housing unit within a month after a tribunal found one of them had threatened to assault a child in the complex.
Brisbane Housing Company manager Teresa Bargo told Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal other residents of the Kelvin Grove units were scared of Todd Hill, who lives there with his partner Tracey Austin.
In a sworn statement to QCAT a female tenant alleged Mr Hill, 40, had threatened to smash in her 13-year-old son's head and had caused them both "grief and havoc".
She alleged on February 20 Mr Hill also threatened to damage her car.
BHC housing manager Teresa Bargo told QCAT adjudicator Bevan Hughes that last week the woman's car was scratched and gouged with a key. Police were called, but no one was charged.
Another tenant made a sworn statement alleging Mr Hill had barged into her unit one night uninvited, just after her daughter had left, the tribunal heard.
Ms Bargo told the tribunal BHC had been forced to move a tenant into crisis care in an emergency eviction after Mr Hill made threats, banged on her door and threw eggs.
Mr Hughes found, on the balance of probabilities, that the alleged violent incidents had occurred and he said the child had to be protected from violence.
Ms Austin, 39, who appeared on behalf of Mr Hill, denied he was violent or had harassed tenants.
She said they had been homeless in Sydney before getting their $268 a week Kelvin Grove "affordable" community housing unit in 2010.
"We will be homeless if we are kicked out now. We've got nowhere to go," she said.
After weighing up "more than one incident of violence" against tenants, including the child, and the risk of the couple being left homeless, Mr Hughes ordered the couple to leave the unit by May 6.
BHC has offered to help the couple get public housing, with assistance from a support agency.
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