Federal Budget 2019 Media Release – 5 Bucks a Week Won’t Dent the Rent
Adrian Pisarski National Shelter Spokesperson says,
‘The tax cuts offered by the government may add $5.00 to the budgets of people on incomes up to $708 per week. But $5 a week won’t dent the rent. Even $20 a week for incomes of $919 per week doesn’t help that much against often rising rents of $400 or $500 a week that many on those incomes face.’
The central themes of budget
Fictional premise and factional omissions undermine Productivity Commission’s housing recommendations in choice in human services report
Fictional premise and factional omissions undermine Productivity Commission's housing recommendations in choice in human services report:
Time for real leadership from Govt on housing ahead of budget 2017
Housing policy peak National Shelter has challenged the Federal Government to be bold in the face of pressure from vested interests and not squander the chance to reform the tax treatment of housing.
Responding to reports on a key speech the Treasurer Scott Morrison is due to make this morning, National Shelter spokesperson Adrian Pisarski said that there is no evidence that curbing the excessive generosity of tax concessions will raise
Young mum to deliver petitions from 40,000 Australians calling on the Federal Government to prioritise homelessness funding and reform to avert looming crisis
MEDIA RELEASE – WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2016
Young mum to deliver petitions from 40,000 Australians calling on the Federal Government to prioritise homelessness funding and reform to avert looming crisis
A delegation led by a 24-year-old mother with a ten-year history of homelessness will deliver petitions comprising over 40,000 signatures from Australians who are concerned the Federal Government is not meeting its responsibilities to the most vulnerable members of our community.
Hayley Van
New Rental Affordability Index shows dire picture for Australian households
Australia’s first ever Rental Affordability Index reveals the depth and extremity of housing stress faced by renters in the current market. Both low income and moderate income households suffer poverty due to high rental costs.
Housing stress occurs when households pay 30% of income or more on rent. Low income households are required to pay around 65% of income on rent to access a tenancy. This means that rents are extremely
Mini summit must tackle housing affordability
Media Release 1 October 2015
Peak body National Shelter calls on the mini summit to tackle housing affordability including putting reforms to negative gearing and capital gains tax exemptions, previously ruled out, back on the table.
Executive Officer Adrian Pisarski said “If Prime Minister Turnbull’s mini summit is intent on addressing reform then changing tax settings to reduce house price inflation must be among the issues to be addressed.”
We currently have a
Proposed social rent models fail affordability test
National Shelte Media Release 15 September 2015
Affordable housing peak National Shelter has today released a report damning reform options under consideration by the Federal Government.
Proposals to move public housing tenants to market rents supported by Commonwealth Rent Assistance would place public tenants in housing stress with insufficient disposable income after meeting massive rent increases.
According to Shelter’s Executive Officer Adrian Pisarski “Public housing is there to protect vulnerable tenants who
Capital gains tax discounts undermine affordability and must be reformed
MEDIA RELEASE
for immediate release 5 August 2015
Case for tax reform on housing grows
Affordable housing peak body National Shelter has renewed its call for tax reform on housing, citing figures released by Greens leaders today.
Figures prepared for the Greens by the Parliamentary Budget Office show potential revenue savings of between $74b and $127b over ten years by reforming Capital Gains Tax Discounts introduced in 1999.
National Shelter
Voices of housing stressed converge on Canberra for National Day of Action
Released Monday 23 March 2014
Housing and homelessness organisations will converge on Canberra for National Shelter’s National Day of Action on Tuesday 24 March 2015 calling on the Federal Government to live up to its responsibilities to ensure that all Australians have access to affordable housing.
30 June 2015 looms large for housing and homelessness peaks National Shelter, Homelessness Australia and the Community Housing Federation of Australia (CHFA) who will lose