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
Peaks essential to consultation processes
Tuesday 10 February 2015
Joint statement from National Shelter, Community Housing Federation of Australia and Homelessness Australia
Embargoed until 9am Wednesday 11 February 2015.
Australia’s housing and homelessness peaks have called on the Abbott Government to make good on their promise to be more consultative by restoring funding to the peak bodies who provide a voice for vulnerable Australians.
The housing and homelessness peaks Community Housing Federation of Australia (CHFA), Homelessness Australia and National
Joint statement on peaks defunding
Joint statement by CHFA, Homelessness Australia and National Shelter on the decision by the federal government to withdraw fund - announced just before Christmas 2014
Joint statement from National Shelter, Community Housing Federation of Australia and Homelessness Australia
Wednesday 24 December 2014
Housing and homelessness peak bodies out in the cold at Christmas: and a very poor new year to follow for anyone struggling to house themselves
It’s not going to be a good Christmas for housing and homelessness peak bodies including the Community Housing Federation of Australia (CHFA), Homelessness Australia and National Shelter.
All three of these peak bodies received news at the beginning of this Christmas week that they
All National Shelter wants for Christmas is a robust civil society: instead there are funding cuts
23 December, 2014
As Scott Morrison takes the baton on the Social Services ministry, the Commonwealth has flagged a move away from funding housing and homelessness.
In his last act at DSS Minister Andrews axed funding from research and peak bodies in the area.
On the eve of Christmas the Federal Government has tried to silence the voices of the vulnerable by reneging on contracts with peak bodies including National Shelter, the Community Housing
Budget 2014 media release
National Shelter condemns the abandonment of affordable housing in the 2014 Federal Budget
Time to commit to action on housing affordability
22 August 2013
The peak housing advocacy organisation for low income Australians, National Shelter, today expressed deep concern that neither major party has addressed the greatest cause of financial hardship for very many Australian households – the lack of affordable housing.
“We are half way through the election campaign, and despite repeated calls across the community, neither Labor nor the Coalition have offered any direct affordable housing policies”, said National Shelter Chair,
Step forward with continued commitment to ending homelessness
National Shelter media release — 28 March 2013
National Shelter has welcomed the Australian Government, state and territories’ commitment to ending homelessness and their long-term investment in affordable rental housing.
Today the federal government announced Round 5 of the National Rental Affordability Scheme to be delivered in 2015–16.
Additionally, the states and territories matched the federal government’s pledge for the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness with a total of $320 million for one
Imperative state and territories match federal government’s homelessness funding
National Shelter media release — 18 March 2013
National Shelter has welcomed the Australian Government’s commitment to ending homelessness by providing up to $159 million to extend the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness for one year.
Chair of National Shelter, Adrian Pisarski, has applauded the federal government’s pledge, and called for the states and territories to provide the matching funding needed to maintain momentum to address homelessness.
'The 2008 white paper on homelessness,
Sole parenting payment cuts could make families homeless
National Shelter media release — 5 March 2013
Housing policy peak National Shelter has warned that the changes to sole parenting payments will force more families into housing stress and homelessness.
National Shelter Chairperson Adrian Pisarski said that sole parent families face the double challenge of unaffordable rents and discrimination in the private rental market.
‘Eroding the income of sole parents undermines their ability to house their children’, Mr Pisarski said.
‘The Government’s white
Undersupply of affordable housing forces difficult housing choices
National Shelter media release — 1 March 2013
National Shelter has welcomed the National Housing Supply Council’s report released today, revealing Australian’s unaffordable housing issue continues to grow.
The report, Housing supply and affordability issues 2012–13, used the 2011 Census data, examining Australian households’ housing consumption and how it has changed over the last decade.
National Shelter Chairperson, Adrian Pisarski, said that the report demonstrates that Australians are changing their housing choices due