Opportunity Through Adversity – Pilbara Housing Investment Plan Report 2025
A call for the Safe Night Space to remain open – if not for the next two years at least over the Christmas period.
Rental Housing in WA: Ten ideas to address the rental crisis
It is the seventeenth report in the BCEC Focus on WA report series. This research looks at overall affordability and where key pressures are.
Quantifying Australia’s unmet housing need
The analysis shows families represented half of the unmet housing needs, an over representation given they onlyaccount for approximately 40 per cent of all households.
Community Housing Opportunities
There are seven recommendations in the report, ranging from government policy changes to unlock the value of community housing to project structures and delivery methods.
Industry scare tactics branded unhelpful as WA government considers rental reforms
The real estate industry has claimed that the impact of two particular changes going ahead – the removal of no grounds evictions and allowing renters to make minor modifications like adding a picture hook – will cause thousands of investors to sell their properties.
The Funding of Western Australian Homelessness Services
This report is based on findings from 73 homelessness services operating across WA and outcomes from focus groups comprising of homelessness service CEOs and managers.
COVID-19 rental housing and homelessness impacts in Australia
New research by the ACOSS/UNSW Poverty and Inequality Partnership shows renters on low and modest incomes are in the grip of a housing pincer, especially in regional Australia, as surging rents and the Commonwealth’s neglect of social and affordable housing creates acute stress.
Barriers in accommodating survivors of modern slavery
Shelter WA partnered with the Australian Red Cross to undertake an in-depth assessment of the Western Australian accommodation options for Red Cross clients on the Support for Trafficked People Program.
HOME Lived Experience Co-design Toolkit and Framework Launch
The project released two significant pieces of work for the sector, a Lived Experience Engagement Framework, and a Lived Experience Co-Design Toolkit. Both were launched during Homelessness Week 2021.
Ending Homelessness Report
The 2021 Ending Homelessness in Western Australia 2021 report builds on previous work from the Centre for Social Impact The University of Western Australia (CSI UWA) by presenting an analysis of homelessness in Western Australia, using the Advance to Zero database.
Government owned land and buildings
Peak housing and homelessness body Shelter WA has identified thirty government owned land and buildings for sale that could be used towards helping solve the affordable housing shortage.
The impact of rental moratorium lifting
The number of people seeking assistance and advice on significant debt they now find themselves in, as a result of the rent increases seen since the moratorium lifting, is of immense concern.
Rental Moratorium Roundtable Report
An ecological approach to realising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians’ aspirations for a high standard of health and housing, and of personal and collective wealth.
Reimagining Indigenous Housing, Health and Wealth
An ecological approach to realising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians’ aspirations for a high standard of health and housing, and of personal and collective wealth.
Data shows impact on people and services in the lead up to rental moratorium lifting
A targeted sample of service providers who deliver frontline services to people who have been or are facing eviction, or had their rent significantly increase as a result of the moratorium lifting, has been undertaken.
New report finds housing stress in WA’s regions at unprecedented levels
Peak housing and homelessness body Shelter WA has released new data finding homelessness, and rental stress in WA’s regions at record levels.
