Welcome

The global financial crisis has passed, and Australian housing markets have generally been remarkably resilient. Underlying demand for housing remains strong.

But structural problems like unaffordability and mismatches between supply and demand of appropriate housing also remain. Many Indigenous Australians live in housing that is unacceptable in a developed economy and rich country like Australia...

Our Housing Australia factsheet is a quick guide to key facts and figures on housing stress, home purchase, rental housing and homelessness in Australia. You can download it here: download factsheet (pdf ~86 kb).

In April, National Shelter and the National Association of Tenant Organizations released a report, 'A better lease on life', which outlines a reform agenda to improve tenants' rights frameworks across Australia. You can download it here: download report (pdf ~1,860 kb); download media release (pdf ~256 kb).

Federal election update

National Shelter has prepared a policy platform that it hopes Australia's leaders, and the government elected at the federal election on August 21, will use to address the housing needs of low-income households. You can download our policy platform, Housing Australia affordably, here: download full version (pdf ~640 kb), download summary version (pdf ~300 kb).

On July 28, National Shelter Chairperson Adrian Pisarski described welfare quarantining as 'simplistic and unrealistic' in the face of housing costs: download media release (pdf ~304 kb). For more on the election, click here…