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National Shelter Seniors Report
Following a series of National consultations earlier this year, National Shelter has released a final report which looks at housing as it relates to older people and alternative housing options available.
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Improved rights may help reduce homelessness
National Shelter and the National Association of Tenant Organisations presented “A Better Lease on Life” to Minister Plibersek last week. The report outlines a reform agenda to improve tenants rights frameworks across Australia. Read more »
National Shelter Indigenous Forum: A way forward for Indigenous peoples in Australia
National Shelter hosted a national Indigenous housing forum at Queensland Shelter on 26 and 27 July bringing representatives from every State and Territory Shelter, and key representatives from Indigenous Community Housing Organisations from all over Australia. The purpose of the forum was to begin a national discussion on Indigenous housing, with a specific focus on urban and regional Indigenous populations. Specific to this, was the focus on gaining Read more »
» Federal Election 2010: Q Shelter perspective
The Federal election was very disappointing from an affordable housing perspective. Whilst the Greens did issue a policy statement early enough to make comment on the Coalition only released a policy on the last day of the election and this was only released to the Canberra Times where Gary Humphries, the Coalition spokesperson on Housing was defending his seat. The only new announcement made by the ALP during the campaign was the creation of the Regional Better Cities Fund which was largely targeted at creating a better planning environment for affordable home ownership. Read more »
Public Housing Campaign
A coalition of Community Organisations including National Shelter, ACOSS, The Community Housing Federation of Australia, Queensland Shelter and about 50 others have embarked on an Australia Fair campaign calling for an increase in national public housing funding. Read more »
NAHA Analysis
Mary Perkins from Shelter NSW has been kind enough to provide us with a succinct and well developed overview of the NAHA, released at last weeks COAG meeting.
The article outlines all elements of the NAHA and clearly states the direction of funding.
For further information on the NAHA please contact the QShelter office on 3318 4002.
National Shelter supports public housing investment push
National Shelter supports calls from The Greens, urging the Federal Government to increase Public Housing investment by $2 billion. Read more »
Housing Australia Factsheet: A quick guide to housing facts and figures
NSW Shelter have prepared an Australian housing factsheet looking at the current circumstances surrounding housing.
The factsheet can be found on Shelter NSW's website at http://www.shelternsw.org.au/docs/fly10factsheet-aust.pdf
National Shelter welcomes federal funding
This week, Minister Tanya Plibersek announced that National Shelter would receive federal funding in the order of $200000 over the next 2 years.
Chairperson of National Shelter Adrian Pisarski welcomed the funding and said that it will assist National Shelter to provide advice and develop policy responses which include tenant and housing consumer perspectives.
“Without funding over the last decade, our capacity to effectively represent consumers has been limited,” Mr Pisarski said.
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