Policy Priorities Release
National Shelter announces policy priorities for a better and fairer housing system
Fictional premise and factional omissions undermine Productivity Commission’s housing recommendations in choice in human services report
Fictional premise and factional omissions undermine Productivity Commission's housing recommendations in choice in human services report:
Time for real leadership from Govt on housing ahead of budget 2017
Housing policy peak National Shelter has challenged the Federal Government to be bold in the face of pressure from vested interests and not squander the chance to reform the tax treatment of housing.
Responding to reports on a key speech the Treasurer Scott Morrison is due to make this morning, National Shelter spokesperson Adrian Pisarski said that there is no evidence that curbing the excessive generosity of tax concessions will raise
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,