Helping people in need during a cost-of-living crisis
57 per cent of participants said access to affordable housing, or homelessness, affected their service users and communities.
57 per cent of participants said access to affordable housing, or homelessness, affected their service users and communities.
We trust this report will assist decision-makers to design policy responses to build back fairer in a manner that eases wealth inequality and improves housing affordability for those on the lowest incomes.
The report highlights that, with house prices also having risen sharply during the crisis in most of the researched countries, housing affordability pressures are now generally even more acute in 2022 than when COVID first hit.
This report is part of a series on poverty and inequality in Australia produced by a partnership between the Australian Council of Social Service and the University of New South Wales.