COMMUNITY & SOCIAL HOUSING
A SHIFT in policy focus away from promoting and subsidising home ownership, more social housing and regulation of Australia’s private rental sector are...
These are among the findings of a new report undertaken for AHURI by researchers from UNSW and Swinburne University of Technology, released during...
“Housing plays a substantive role in experiences of poverty. Housing costs can increase the effects of poverty, and make it more difficult to address its causes...
“To effectively address poverty in Australia, the role of housing must be critically rethought. This may involve explicitly shifting the current focus on...
Social housing was highlighted as traditionally the “most important intervention” to address housing-related poverty, providing tenants with affordable...
“However, Australia’s social housing system is constrained on multiple fronts, and a growing number of households experiencing poverty rent privately.”...
At the federal level, the $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) will deliver 30,000 new social and affordable rental homes in...
The report called for increasing direct government funding, and NHFIC finance, in social and affordable housing capital expenditure and to address the...
According to the report, a concentration of policies promoting and subsidising home ownership is one of the factors driving the role housing plays in...
“The extent of social housing divestment is such that there has been negligible—or negative—growth in stock levels across all Australian jurisdictions...
Meanwhile, residential tenancy laws in Australia do not regulate rents for affordability and allow landlords to readily terminate tenancies. State governments have...
The AHURI report highlighted that the location of housing available to people on low incomes is often only in areas that are distant from transport corridors and...
“These areas may also have fewer public transport options and less frequent services, resulting in increased travel times and a greater reliance on cars...
A policy agenda that specifically pursues societal well-being could include housing and homelessness targets, noting that Australia can draw on the existing...
Investments in evidence should continue to be made across housing tenures, age cohorts and socio-cultural groups, including evidence informed by...