Welcome
The risk of another global financial crisis presents
unknown challenges to households in Australia. Australian
housing markets have generally been remarkably resilient,
with some corrections of overheating in some homeownership
submarkets but no massive fall in house prices. Underlying
demand for housing remains strong. But structural problems
in the market, like unaffordability and mismatches
between supply and demand of appropriate housing, remain.
Vacancy rates for rental housing are very low, and
most very-low income earners in private rental are
in housing stress until they get rent assistance.
Many Indigenous Australians live in housing that is
unacceptable in a developed economy and rich country
like Australia.
National Shelter is a peak non-government organisation that aims to improve housing access, affordability, appropriateness, safety and security for people who are on low-incomes, or who face disadvantage in the housing system.
On December 9, National Shelter welcomed the Honourable Robert McClelland, MP as the new Minister for Housing and Homelessness within Cabinet: download media release (pdf ~113 kb).
On July 1, we released our report on funding housing assistance called 'Towards NAHA Mark II: National Shelter dialogue ahead of the next National Affordable Housing Agreement and associated National Partnership Agreements': download (pdf ~740 kb).
We have prepared
a policy platform on addressing the housing needs
of low and moderate-income households. You can download
this policy platform, Housing Australia
affordably, here: download
full version (pdf ~640 kb), download
summary version (pdf ~300 kb).
Our Housing Australia factsheet
is a quick guide to critical data on housing stress, home purchase, private rental, social housing and homelessness: download
factsheet (pdf ~505 kb).
Australians For Affordable Housing – a coalition of national housing, welfare and community sector organisations formed to highlight the problem of housing affordability in Australia – launched its campaign to fix our housing system on September 19. National Shelter is a member of its steering committee, and urges you to support the campaign. more…
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