ACHO Sector Strengthening Project – Studio Kinship
The pilot ‘Kinship House’ will be lived in by workers building the rest of the development, which will eventually house 3,500 people.
Tag Archive for: Rentals
Priced Out: An Index of Affordable Rentals for Australia’s Essential Workers
The findings help explain why so many essential industries are facing workforce shortages. Workers have been priced out of their communities.
Sweaty and Stressed: Renting in an Australian Summer
Energy debt is a fact of life for a growing number of renters, who simply cannot afford to maintain a healthy home temperature on a limited income.
Shelter WA in Broome
Goldfields-Esperance is the largest region in WA, covering just under a third of the state. The challenge of servicing a vast region is a common theme amongst local organisations, the message being that the tyranny of distance brings a real cost to effective service delivery.
Inaugural State Infrastructure Strategy tabled in parliament
Foundations for a Stronger Tomorrow will provide a long-term infrastructure outlook from which government and the private sector can plan and work for decades to come.
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.
Go for Gold in legacy for Brisbane 2032
The report calls for a shift away from crisis responses towards deeper, structural change.
Building Tenancy Skills
We will work alongside people with disability and relevant advocacy, financial counselling, disability, consumer protection, community legal, housing and housing support providers to develop skills and resources to help prevent evictions and reduce the risk of homelessness for people with disability
Company homes ease affordable rental shortage
In partnership with Rio Tinto and Woodside the City of Karratha worked to understand what housing and accommodation was vacant.
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 Crisis – A Local Government Response
Shelter WA congratulates the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River for their proactive approach to addressing rental affordability issues.
Residential Relief Grants Scheme Changes
The WA government has announced that the $22M of unspent funds remaining in Residential Relief Grants Scheme will be re-purposed to provide landlords with direct one-off payments equivalent to 75 per cent of the accrued rent arrears incurred during the emergency period, up to a maximum of $4,000.
State Recovery Advisory Group
Shelter WA attended the State Recovery Advisory Group meeting which refreshed collective understanding of the impacts of COVID-19 and how these will continue to evolve into 2021.
Wave of Homelessness
This letter appeared in The West Australian on Thursday, 5 November. It is written by Michelle Mackenzie, the CEO of Shelter WA.
Rental properties in Fremantle sought
One and two bedroom units are needed for the program which aims to house people in need from the area so they can be supported to stabilise their lives.
