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Housing crisis may have long-term implications for children: Report
More children are growing up in private rentals and facing housing insecurity, a new report finds, warning that it could have long-term implications for their development and mental wellbeing. Source: ABC News.
Report finds young Australians’ home ownership rate at an 80-year low
More young people are abandoning hopes of home ownership amid increasing generational inequality, according to a new report. Source: ABC News.
ACTU calls for two-year rental leases, public housing boost
Standard rental leases would be doubled to two years and public housing construction lifted to a 40-year-high of one in every 10 new homes, under a new push by unions to alleviate the housing crisis. Source: The Australian.
Tasmania’s first Future Fund project delivers more than 30 homes
The first Housing Australia Future Fund project to be completed in Tasmania delivers more than 30 new social and affordable homes in Triabunna. Source: Hobart Archdiocese.
Radical plan to build up and force housing prices down
Australia’s sprawling suburbs of single-storey homes would be transformed under a Productivity Commission plan to make the property market affordable, with three-storey developments allowed everywhere and high-rise apartment blocks built near train, tram and bus stations. Source: Sydney Morning Herald.
Audit Office finds government’s social housing push well behind target
Less than four per cent of the social homes promised by the Albanese Government’s signature social housing fund have been delivered, two years into a five-year target period. Source: SBS News.
Catholic sector calls for audit of housing and building regulations
Catholic Social Services Australia has called on the Australian Government to commission a comprehensive, whole-of-government audit of regulatory burden on home buying and building.
‘Living in fear’: Almost half of renters struggling to pay rent
New data revealed almost half of Australian tenants struggled to pay their rent last month, with millions dreading the next call or email from their landlord. Source: News.com.au.
Discussions on housing inequity must include age and wealth: ACOSS
The federal government must consider age and wealth together to meaningfully address the growing wealth divide between generations, says the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS). Source: ABC News.