Brutal Reality: The Human Cost of Australia’s Housing Crisis
This report explores the experiences of community members navigating Australia’s housing system, and the organisations who support them.
Tag Archive for: Rents
Anglicare WA: Rental Affordability Snapshot
There were 2,912 private rentals available in WA on 17/18 March 2023.
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.
State of the Nation’s Housing 2022–23
From 2023 to 2032, household formation is expected to be dominated by lone person households (563,600 additional households), followed by couples with children households (533,300 additional households).
Ageing in Place: Home and Housing for Australia’s Older Renters
Social housing is the most powerful way to keep older people in secure homes, and stop them from going into aged care before they’re ready.
Role of housing in solving critical skill shortages across the regions
The role of housing in solving critical skill shortages across the regions.
Tenants need peace of mind so it’s time to make renting fair
Another positive reform, and one close to my heart, is to ensure that renters have the right to keep their pets.
Anglicare WA: Rental Affordability Snapshot
It is based on 3,457 available private rentals in the Perth metro area, South West and Great Southern, and the North West.
Hot Homes – Renter Researchers’ experience of summer 21-22
The national Better Renting campaign has launched its very excellent Hot Homes: Renter Researchers’ experiences of summer 21-22 report.
‘What works’ to sustain Indigenous tenancies in Australia
Only around a third of Indigenous Australians own their own home, compared to two-thirds of non-Indigenous people.
State of the Nation’s Housing 2021–22
By household type, the strongest growth in new households is expected from lone person households (595,000), followed by couple families without children (488,000), then couple families with children (361,000).
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
Polling finds overwhelming support for a budget boost to end homelessness
Findings from the polling, released to coincide with Homelessness Week 2021, show that housing, rental affordability and homelessness are in the top three issues that the community would like to see the state government focus on.
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.
Eviction Emergency – Emergency Budget needed
146 tenancy hearings in three days, thousands of families facing homelessness as winter approaches an Emergency Budget is needed.
