Submission to PC Introducing Competition and Informed User Choice into Human Services:
In our response to the draft Productivity Commission's Introducing Competition and Informed User Choice into Human Services: Reforms to Human Services Draft Report, National Shelter reflects the premise that social housing is broken, and argues for a systemic approach to reform taking in the whole of the Australian housing system including the growing private rental segment and changing patterns of home purchase and retention.
Web National Shelter Productivity Commission Review Submission
National Renters Survey with CHOICE and NATO
Aussie renters facing insecurity and poor quality housing, with 50% reporting discrimination
Report EMBARGOED until Thursday 16 February 2017
The Australian Rental Market Report Final Web
National Shelter has partnered with CHOICE and the National Association of Tenants’ Organisations to call for governments to prioritise rental security and quality issues, alongside housing affordability, as a national study reveals widespread fear and discrimination faced by thousands of Australians.
“Governments across Australia are rightly focused on the issue of housing affordability. Affordability is extremely important to renters, but it
National Shelter Submission to ALP Discussion Paper on Housing
National Shelter welcomes the opportunity to provide this submission to the Australian Labor Party Discussion Paper on Housing Affordability. Our submission is based upon National Shelter’s role as Australia’s peak housing advocacy organisation, our Policy Platform, Meeting Australia’s Housing Challenges, developed over a number of years in consultation with our members across the country, as well as more recent consultations National Shelter conducted around the National Affordable Housing Agreement.
National Shelter has worked closely with Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS), Homelessness Australia, the National Association for
Peaks essential to consultation processes
A Joint statement from National Shelter, Community Housing Federation of Australia and Homelessness Australia - Australia’s housing and homelessness peaks- 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.
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
Financial impact of asset transfers from state/territory governments to community housing organisations
This report was written for National Shelter by Sphere consulting. It explores the appetite and issues relating to stock transfer around the country. It also provides a model showing the minimum level of asset transfer needed to optimise the leverage from such transfers.
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National Affordable Housing Agreement project report
This report is the result of a series of consultations held by National Shelter around the country on the strengths and weaknesses of the National Affordable Housing Agreement (NAHA). It contains a series of recommendations to strengthen the agreement.
Budget 2014 media release
National Shelter condemns the abandonment of affordable housing in the 2014 Federal Budget