Report on Government Services 2023
The Productivity Commission’s Report on Government Services (ROGS) 2023 for the sector — assessing services across social housing, specialist homelessness services, and financial assistance — found that of the low-income households who are privately renting, 43.9 per cent were at risk of being pushed into homelessness last financial year.
COVID-19 Consideration
COVID‑19 may affect data in this report in a number of ways. This includes in respect of actual performance (that is, the impact of COVID‑19 on service delivery from 2020 to 2022 which is reflected in the data results), and the collection and processing of data (that is, the ability of data providers to undertake data collection and process results for inclusion in the report).
Recurrent Expenditure
Total Australian, State and Territory government recurrent expenditure for social housing and specialist homelessness services was $5.9 billion in 2021‑22 an increase of 1.9 per cent from 2020-21. For the 2020-21 financial year (the most recent financial year for which data are available across all sections), this represented around 1.8 per cent of total government expenditure covered in this report.
The Australian Government share of this expenditure was $1.7 billion in 2021‑22. Social housing services accounted for $4.6 billion and specialist homelessness services for $1.3 billion.
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