Give Me Shelter: The long-term costs of underproviding public, social and affordable housing
It clearly demonstrates the underlying business case for greater investment in affordable, public and social housing.
Tag Archive for: Social Housing
Australian Local Government business papers
Shelter WA urges all delegates to support the motions that address the growing and evolving housing affordability challenges across Australian rural, regional, and metropolitan communities.
Managing Access to Social Housing in Australia
The research reveals signs of intensifying stress within the social housing system when it comes to allocating limited housing supply for non-priority applicants in particular.
Parkerville Children and Youth Care
Modern services are part of the evolution of an organisation that has provided a safety and security net for children and young people for almost 120 years.
Budget Briefing
Increased investment to spot purchase homes to increase social housing supply is very welcome.
Research estimates the costs of social and affordable housing shortages to society
The research forms a larger project being funded by several housing organisations including CHIA, Everybody’s Home and Shelter NSW.
IPCC: Climate Change 2022 Mitigation of Climate Change
The IPCC report calls out the need to embed equity principles in the solutions to reduce emissions and adapt to the climate change impacts already locked.
Collaboration for housing solutions in Margaret River
Concepts for four local projects were profiled at the forum, including densification of an existing social housing precinct.
‘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.
A Liveability Framework to improve real life impacts for higher density homes
This framework identifies key liveability and accessibility elements.
Solar Potential of Australian Social Housing Stock
Australia’s social and community housing could host as much as 1.8 Gigawatts (GW) of rooftop solar, allowing some of Australia’s most vulnerable energy consumers to benefit from the low cost of solar.
Australia is at a crossroads
Australians need more social and affordable housing to support the four in ten of us who rent.
Ending homelessness in Australia: An evidence and policy deep dive
Homelessness is a complex problem. If we are to end it, we need to understand and engage all levers available to us.
Australia needs a social housing future fund
The future fund is an important mechanism to address the ongoing decline of Australia’s social housing stock.
COVID-19 rental housing and homelessness impacts in Australia
New research by the ACOSS/UNSW Poverty and Inequality Partnership shows renters on low and modest incomes are in the grip of a housing pincer, especially in regional Australia, as surging rents and the Commonwealth’s neglect of social and affordable housing creates acute stress.
Waterwise public housing project expansion welcomed as win-win-win
During the pilot program, nearly 1,000 water audits were carried out at high water use public housing properties, with 620 receiving leak repairs and 735 receiving water efficient fixtures.
