Welcome
National Shelter is Australia’s peak housing advocacy organisation.
We are dedicated to advocating for a fairer, more just housing system, particularly for low-income Australian households. We aim to make housing more accessible, affordable, appropriate, safe and secure for everyone.
Shelter members in each state and territory contribute to our research, policy development and advocacy. Our federation of members represents a wide range of non-government housing organisations and individuals.
We see Australia as facing four key housing challenges in 2012:
- making housing more affordable
- reforming the private rental market
- combatting homelessness, and
- revitalising social housing.
These critical issues are addressed in our new policy platform, 'Meeting housing challenges', which will be finalised this year. A draft of the policy platform is now available: both a long version and a summary.
What's new
In a media release we issued on March 2, we welcomed the Hon. Brendan O’Connor, MP, as the new Minister for Housing and Homelessness, and we welcomed the retention of a minister for housing in the Cabinet.
We have released a 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'.
Sick of housing jargon? See our new housing terms factsheet.
We have updated our Housing Australia factsheet.
We support Australians For Affordable Housing — a coalition of national housing, welfare and community sector organisations formed to highlight the problem of housing affordability in Australia — and we urge you to support their campaign.
