Key housing affordability advocates have welcomed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s commitment to expand the National Housing Infrastructure Facility to social and affordable housing.

Mr Albanese made the commitment in his closing address to the Jobs and Skills Summit in Canberra this afternoon. The policy makes it possible for $575 million dollars in the national housing infrastructure facility to invest in affordable housing by attracting financing from super funds and other sources of private capital.

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The Jobs and Skills Summit must consider the urgent need to expand social and affordable housing if it hopes to deal with core economic challenges such as productivity and labour mobility, according to key housing affordability advocates.

The joint call from Community Housing Industry Association, National Shelter, Homelessness Australia and Everybody’s Home comes as a raft of recent data and research demonstrates the economic toll of inadequate housing options for Australians on low and modest incomes.

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National Shelter, the peak body representing the housing interests of low-income households, congratulates Anthony Albanese and Labor on their election win.

Ms Emma Greenhalgh, Chief Executive Officer of National Shelter said ‘We look forward to working with the incoming Albanese government to delivery it’s housing agenda. National Shelter and other housing and homelessness peaks have worked closely with Labor, through Jason Clare, while in opposition..."

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Housing sector peaks representing low-income households and community housing providers have welcomed today's policy announcements by the Australian Labour Party as a timely recognition of the urgent need to tackle intensifying housing unaffordability.

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A missed opportunity to invest in the security of low-income Australians

National Shelter, the national peak body representing the housing interest of low-income households, says that the 2022/23 federal budget continues to ignore the needs of low-income and vulnerable Australians and gain fails to invest in social and affordable housing. Click here to read the full media release.

Peak housing body National Shelter has released its policy platform highlighting the need for a national housing plan to combat growing unaffordability in home ownership and renting. The platform is asking that the Government elevates the Housing Minister into Cabinet and establishes a new independent authority to develop the plan. Click here to read the full media release.

National Shelter is shining a light on Australians living in the dark shadows of the nation’s housing affordability crisis during National Homelessness week from 1-7 August. Over the past year most regional areas across the country have seen rental rises by at least 10 per cent, according to new research. Read the media release here.

The ALP has ditched its commitment to reforming Negative Gearing and Capital Gains Tax, along with its opposition to stage 3 tax cuts and, in doing, so has abandoned would-be homeowners and low-income households wanting to buy homes.

National Shelter applauds the announcement by Opposition leader Anthony Albanese that Labor will establish an Australian Housing Future Fund to invest in social and affordable housing.

“Such a fund will create a pipeline of investment that can be built on to secure a steady growth in social and affordable housing.”

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