Publications Archives - Shelter (National) https://shelter.org.au/category/publications/ Housing: a basic human right Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:15:41 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://shelter.org.au/wp-content/uploads/favicon-72-50x50.jpg Publications Archives - Shelter (National) https://shelter.org.au/category/publications/ 32 32 Rental Affordability Index November 2025 https://shelter.org.au/rental-affordability-index-november-2025/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:14:56 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=7421 The annual Rental Affordability Index (RAI) report is an easy-to-understand indicator of rental affordability relative to household incomes. Since its establishment in 2015, it has become a crucial tool for policymakers. It helps track rental affordability trends and informs evidence-based policy decisions – highlighting nuances between places and the experiences of disadvantaged households.  Background Studies

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]]> Rights at risk: Rising rents and repercussions https://shelter.org.au/rights-at-risk-rising-rents-and-repercussions/ Fri, 04 Jul 2025 06:47:25 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=7398 ‘Rights at Risk’: Seven in ten people who rent their home worried about asking for repairs National Shelter, alongside the National Association of Renters’ Organisations (NARO) and the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS)/UNSW Poverty and Inequality Partnership, is proud to release ‘Rights at Risk: Rising Rents and Repercussions’.   This report, prepared by Dr

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]]> Rental Affordability Index November 2024 https://shelter.org.au/rental-affordability-index-november-2024/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 02:49:06 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=7367 SGS Economics and Planning is proud to release the tenth edition of the Rental Affordability Index (RAI), marking a decade of tracking rental trends and challenges across Australia. Since the first RAI in 2015, rental affordability has declined in most cities, limiting where people can live and work and reshaping communities nationwide. Once affordable areas

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]]> National Cabinet Rental Report Card https://shelter.org.au/national-cabinet-rental-report-card/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:59:00 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=7306 In August 2023 National Cabinet met and agreed to deliver on a range of priorities for Australians, with a focus on more secure and affordable housing. This also included the Better Deal for Renters to ‘harmonise and strengthen renters’ rights across Australia’. This report assesses the progress of the Better Deal for Renters by each

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]]> Rental Affordability Index November 2022 https://shelter.org.au/6565-2/ Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:32:46 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=6565 Read the full Rental Affordability Index for November 2022 here. Access the interactive dashboard here.

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]]> Enews: Rental affordability for low-income households falls back to pre-pandemic levels https://shelter.org.au/enews-rai/ Tue, 23 Nov 2021 21:51:00 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=6407 In the latest release of the Rental Affordability Index, low and moderate-income Australian households are still facing moderate to extreme rental stress nationwide. Click here to view the enews, access the interactive map and read the report.

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]]> 2021-22 Budget Analysis https://shelter.org.au/2021-22-budget-analysis/ Thu, 20 May 2021 08:32:27 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=6296 The 21/22 Budget was presented as “the COVID Budget” with some extraordinary measures pitched as addressing growth, jobs, infrastructure and women. It continues or extends a range of measures from previous budgets (tax cuts, programs like Home Deposit Schemes) and does provide some additional funding into housing, which, from our perspective, will tend to pump

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]]> Aboriginal Housing and Health Report https://shelter.org.au/aboriginal-housing-and-health-report/ Fri, 07 May 2021 00:46:26 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=6285 Shelter WA received a grant from the Australian Government Department of Health to undertake a review of Indigenous housing policy and programs, reviewing the intersection of housing and health policy, and to provide information on the policy changes required to deliver better housing and health outcomes. Shelter WA and National Shelter appointed PwC’s Indigenous Consulting

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]]> Rental Affordability Index December 2020 https://shelter.org.au/rental-affordability-index-december-2020/ Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:36:19 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=6268 Read the full Rental Affordability Index for December 2020 here.

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]]> Young Renters Hardest Hit: Moving On Report https://shelter.org.au/young-renters-hardest-hit-moving-on-report/ Sat, 17 Apr 2021 07:38:56 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=6259 The first findings of the national Moving On survey are out! The report shines a light on the experiences of private rental tenants, landlords and property managers across Australia to create a picture of how tenancies end in the private rental market and what changes are needed to make renting fairer. There is no available

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