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500 Live 500 Homes: Vulnerability Index Survey Brisbane

A number of organisations through the Homelessness Community Action Plans (HCAP) process have met to discuss the possibility of holding another Registry Week in Brisbane to undertake a point in time count of people who are sleeping rough, in boarding houses, emergency accommodation across Brisbane, and caravan parks. We are interested in including different populations of people such as young people, families and individuals. Read more »

National Shelter 15/05/2013: Long term plan needed for housing affordability in Australia

National Shelter has welcomed the Federal Budget 2013-14, but claims that measures implemented by the Labor Governments have run their course without future commitment, despite collapsing home ownership, stalled construction and growing housing stress and homelessness. 

Chair of National Shelter, Adrian Pisarski said that although seniors have been provided a positive opportunity in the budget, that there are crucial gaps in the budget which do not provide for Australians on lower incomes. Read more »

National Shelter 10/05/2013: Commonwealth Rent Assistance failing low income Australians

National Shelter supports the National Welfare Rights call to increase Commonwealth Rent Assistance, in conjunction with their recent study outlining its inadequacy.

The new study released today, A home on the range or a home out of range? How Commonwealth Rent Assistance fails low income Australians outlines how rent assistance is failing the ones who need it the most. Read more »

Housing impact of welfare change

This article is from Q Shelter's March members' journal, The Quarterly Magazine.  Read more »

National Shelter 7/5/13: Call for NRAS to become a permanent program

National Shelter has welcomed the Gillard Government’s announcement to build 10,000 new affordable homes under the National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS), but calls for NRAS to be a permanent program.

The announcement made today is worth $1 billion over the next 10 years across Australia and is the last of 50,000 NRAS dwellings that will be built by June 2016. Read more »