Housing organisations are worried more Australians will be thrown into homelessness without more action from the government.
Replacing stamp duty with land tax and building more rental specific accommodation would help improve accessibility to housing.
The public housing waiting list in Victoria has blown out to 56,000,so why are hundreds of apartments empty?
Regional Australia is experiencing rising homelessness as rents skyrocket,vacancy rates plummet and people on low incomes find themselves unable to afford a home.
Amanda Bilson admits life with her beloved husband,the famed Sydney chef and restaurateur Tony Bilson,had its share of financial stress,but she never thought they would face homelessness.
Nathan Stanley Brand,46,was one of around 100 people sleeping rough at Pioneer Park in Fremantle from Boxing Day,2020.
Brisbane’s ageing unit blocks could make way for newer,denser housing under an idea to prevent one owner vetoing the sale of entire blocks to developers.
The electrician from rural NSW has been running an average of 100 kilometres per day through the month-and-a-half journey and has suffered a string of injuries along the way.
A hyper-local approach to ending street homelessness is being trialled in the City of Port Phillip,where the name of every rough sleeper is added to a list.
Two years later the results of the experiment are in. And,overall,the government’s decision has been vindicated.
A government program housed a small number of former rough sleepers in “inappropriate” luxury buildings during the pandemic,a review has found.