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Submission on Housing Payment Deduction Scheme

23 April 2013

In our submission on the Exposure Draft Social Security Legislation Amendment (Public Housing Tenants’ Support) Bill 2013, we express our lack of support for the introduction to the Housing Payment Deduction Scheme. While the scheme implements a recommendation of the Commonwealth Government’s white paper on homelessness, The road home, we think that it unnecessarily and unfairly targets a very small proportion of households. Additionally, National Shelter recommends that all levels of government fund further preventative and capacity-building measures

2019-05-21T13:04:13+10:00April 30th, 2013|Meeting Housing Needs, Meeting Housing Needs, Publications, Submissions, Submissions, Submissions|
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Submission on Exposure Draft Homelessness Bill 2012

3 August 2012

In our submission on the Exposure Draft Homelessness Bill 2012, we called for a right to adequate housing under Australian law  — we think that the relevant commitments made in the international conventions listed in the Exposure Draft Bill should be transformed into rights created by legislation that can by asserted by citizens under Australian law. Our submission also covered issues such as the recognition of the specific needs and experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

2019-05-21T13:04:14+10:00August 3rd, 2012|Meeting Housing Needs, Meeting Housing Needs, Publications, Submissions, Submissions, Submissions|
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Submission on Australian Bureau of Statistics review of the ‘Counting the homeless’ methodology

June 2011

In our submission on Australian Bureau of Statistics review of the Counting the homeless methodology, we recommended that the proposed Counting the homeless methodology should only be introduced at such time as the assumptions of the Australian Bureau of Statistics can be proven accurate and correct, and endorsed by the housing and homelessness sector and experts in the field. We called for the ABS to focus on improving their ability to capture information on significantly under-reported segments of the

2019-05-21T13:04:14+10:00June 1st, 2011|Meeting Housing Needs, Meeting Housing Needs, Publications, Submissions, Submissions, Submissions|
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