PERTH'S latest gang, the Brothers 4 Life, has been told to get out of a taxpayer-funded home which police and the Department of Housing suspect is being used as a clubhouse.

Officers from the gang crime squad raided the property at Woodlark Close in Waikiki last Friday and allegedly found evidence that the home was regularly used as a base for gang meetings and social events.

Department of Housing staff were notified and inspected the property before advising the principal tenant that she appeared to be in breach of her lease.

It is understood she was asked to voluntarily vacate the property but refused, which means the department will have to seek a court order to have the lease terminated.

The tenant, who is not facing charges from the police raid, is believed to be the partner of the gang’s founder, who lives with her at the home with two of his sons who are also in the gang.

Images posted by B4L members on Facebook show large groups of men dressed in gang t-shirts and leather vests socialising at the Waikiki home.

Camera Icon The gang promotes itself as a family organisation. Credit: PerthNow

A large mural bearing the gang’s name and its distinctive logo — a pair of AK-47 assault rifles —had been painted on a roller door and several Harley Davidson motorcycles could be seen parked inside a garage.

“Illegal use of a public housing property is not tolerated and if this is substantiated, action will be taken to terminate the tenancy in accordance with the Residential Tenancies Act,” Department of Housing general manager of service delivery Greg Cash said yesterday.

“Should Housing apply to court to terminate the tenancy, the legal tenant will have the opportunity to defend this action in court.”

Mr Cash confirmed that the house was last inspected by the authority in October and no issues were identified .

Almost 17,000 people are on the waiting list for housing authority properties, which are reserved for pensioners and those on low incomes.

Tenants have to agree when they sign a lease that the property will only be used as a residence and are warned that using it for any other purpose could result in the lease being terminated.

B4L is believed to have about 20 members in Perth after it established itself late last year.

The gang’s founder saidin February that it was a “family organisation” that promoted “peace” over “violence”

“We are different. . . we are a family organisation . . . a good organisation that helps people,” the man said.

“Not everybody is an angel, but not everybody is a devil either.”

Two B4L members this week pleaded guilty to their role in an unprovoked baseball bat attack which left a Rockingham pharmacist in a coma for two weeks.

The man was attacked in February last year in a carpark at Point Peron after being asked for a cigarette.

Trent Travis Ninyette admitted in the Perth Magistrate’s Court on Thursday to punching the man in the face.

His brother, Mustaqiim Bin Musa Salleh, pleaded guilty to threatening the man before the attack.

A third brother and gang member, Muhammad Kafi Bin Musa Salleh, had pleaded guilty to a charge of causing the man grievous bodily harm and is awaiting sentencing.