Young mum to deliver petitions from 40,000 Australians calling on the Federal Government to prioritise homelessness funding and reform to avert looming crisis
MEDIA RELEASE – WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2016
Young mum to deliver petitions from 40,000 Australians calling on the Federal Government to prioritise homelessness funding and reform to avert looming crisis
A delegation led by a 24-year-old mother with a ten-year history of homelessness will deliver petitions comprising over 40,000 signatures from Australians who are concerned the Federal Government is not meeting its responsibilities to the most vulnerable members of our community.
Hayley Van Summeren, who started the petition at the last federal election,
New Rental Affordability Index shows dire picture for Australian households
Australia’s first ever Rental Affordability Index reveals the depth and extremity of housing stress faced by renters in the current market. Both low income and moderate income households suffer poverty due to high rental costs.
Housing stress occurs when households pay 30% of income or more on rent. Low income households are required to pay around 65% of income on rent to access a tenancy. This means that rents are extremely unaffordable.
The Rental Affordability Index has been created by National Shelter,
Mini summit must tackle housing affordability
Media Release 1 October 2015
Peak body National Shelter calls on the mini summit to tackle housing affordability including putting reforms to negative gearing and capital gains tax exemptions, previously ruled out, back on the table.
Executive Officer Adrian Pisarski said “If Prime Minister Turnbull’s mini summit is intent on addressing reform then changing tax settings to reduce house price inflation must be among the issues to be addressed.”
We currently have a tax system which inflates the market by pitting investors against
Proposed social rent models fail affordability test
National Shelte Media Release 15 September 2015
Affordable housing peak National Shelter has today released a report damning reform options under consideration by the Federal Government.
Proposals to move public housing tenants to market rents supported by Commonwealth Rent Assistance would place public tenants in housing stress with insufficient disposable income after meeting massive rent increases.
According to Shelter’s Executive Officer Adrian Pisarski “Public housing is there to protect vulnerable tenants who need the affordability provided by low rents.”
Across Australia public housing
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 has argued that the discounts, introduced by the Howard government,
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 the funding that allows them to voice the concerns of
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 Shelter were told just before Christmas that they would not
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 would not be funded beyond 30 June 2015.
But this news
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 Federation of Australia and Homelessness Australia.
National Shelter Executive Officer, Adrian
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, Adam Farrar.“There have been two leaders’ debates; but a deafening