Housing Assistance in Australia 2023

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Housing plays a critical role in the health and wellbeing of Australians.

Affordable and safe housing can help people avoid housing stress, which improves household wellbeing. In this release from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare we get a better idea on housing assistance across Australia.

In 2022, around 815,500 Australians lived in social housing in over 442,700 dwellings across the country. The majority (67 per cent) of social housing dwellings were public housing stock and Community Housing (25 per cent). Commonwealth Rent Assistance was provided to over 1.3 million income units at the end of June 2022.

In WA, in 2022 there were,

Key Finding

  • 42,450 social housing dwellings which house 40,179 households with 84,801 tenants throughout 2021-22.

In 2022, in WA, most (30,629) social housing dwellings met the size requirements for the household composition. There were 4,918 WA dwellings that were considered to be underutilised and 1,772 WA dwellings that were considered to be overcrowded.

Authors

Australian Institute of Health and Wellbeing. Read the web report here.

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