Australia needs to build 750,000 social homes to halve housing crisis

COMMUNITY & SOCIAL HOUSING

AUSTRALIA needs to build 750,000 social homes over the next two decades if it is to go some way to addressing the national housing crisis, according to the...

Convened by Everybody’s Home, the People’s Commission report is based on the submissions and testimony of more than 1,500 Australians who voiced their experiences of the...

What this report tells us is that Australia’s housing crisis has really been climbing the income ladder,” Everybody’s Homes spokesperson Maiy Azize told Australian Property Journal...

We’ve known for a long time that people on middle to low incomes are really struggling to find a place that they can afford. But what this report is really showing is that people from...

The report found that people who are renting – even those on good incomes – are especially struggling as they can’t predict what their next rent increase is going to be...

The People’s Commission’s report unveiled new data from a survey of more than 120 frontline organisations ranking the top impacts of the housing crisis on clients, and...

Three in four nominated homelessness – there are 122,000 people experiencing homelessness in Australia on any given night – while nearly three in...

Commissioner Doug Cameron, former Labor Senator and Parliamentary Secretary for Housing and Homelessness, said, “The federal government must step up and...

I applaud the fact that the new Housing Minister expresses enthusiasm to tackle the housing crisis, however it’s troubling that failed ‘market solutions’ such as...

Last month saw official start of national cabinet’s Housing Australia Future Fund, which targets the delivery of 20,000 social homes and 10,000 affordable homes over...

No government” is doing enough on social housing supply, Azize said, and the “obvious place” where state governments could be doing more is on rental reform, including limiting...

The thing that the federal government could do tomorrow that would make a really big impact for people is to co-ordinate some kind of rental reform – something to limit rent increases...

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