Last month, the Department of Communities (Communities) co-hosted WA’s first Aboriginal Community Housing Organisation (ACHO) Sector Strengthening Summit with Shelter WA and the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing Association (NATSIHA).
The two-day Summit was part of the ACHO Sector Strengthening Project being funded by Communities and delivered by Shelter WA to identify and map the ACHO sector and support capacity and network-building of ACHOs.
Quick fixes won’t address the housing affordability crisis. Feeling the cold? Spare a thought for the rough sleepers in Sydney who shivered through the city’s chilliest June morning in 13 years.
Australia needs to build more quality housing, and fast. Low-wage workers are sleeping on the streets. Families are being forced to choose between paying rent and putting food on the table. Nurses live in boarding houses because they can’t find accommodation close to hospitals.
After decades of debate, all political parties and agencies recognise that there is an acute shortage of housing. This is partially due to an underbuild in the previous decades, a shift toward lower density through the pandemic and strong population growth. The shortage of housing stock has reached such an acute level that all tiers of government are focused on addressing the problem.
Major bank joins others in a more optimistic outlook for house prices By Steven Byerley Westpac has revised its forecast for national house price inflation to 7% for the year 2023, aligning with the optimistic outlook shared by the Commonwealth Bank and National Australia Bank.
This update comes after Westpac initially predicted a stable housing market for the same period in April, The Australian reported. The new forecast from Westpac is further bolstered by expectations of a 4% price rise in 2024.
The Age first reported that a senior government source, speaking anonymously, disclosed that discussions have involved a proposal to limit landlords to one rent increase every two years, up from 12 months. The measures may also stipulate a maximum percentage that rent can be raised. Speaking to journalists on Sunday, 23 July, Mr Andrews said that “everything is on the table”, with regard to the housing measures the state was considering.
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Fiona Martin and her children live in a rented home that she can’t afford to buy. Luckily, her rent is subsidised by income from a modest investment property she is paying off. While Australian landlords are often portrayed as affluent aristocrats, Martin is more typical of the more than 80 per cent of the rental market owned by individuals, or “mum and dad investors”, says Australian Landlords Association president Andrew Kent.
UDIA (SA) Awards for Excellence saw community housing provider Junction take home four of the twelve project awards, including Project of the Year for Clifton Park, a mixed housing development delivered in partnership with the South Australian Housing Authority.
The annual awards recognise innovation and excellence in development across the scope of each project, and reflect the industry’s contribution to liveability in this state.
While government’s role in creating affordable housing is to create policies, provide services, and build the crucial political will that encourages and promotes development of more housing, moving from policy to buildout cannot be achieved without the private sector.
The housing crisis in the United States has been worsened by the pandemic, persistent inflation, and the cost and availability of housing. At the same time, the number of individuals experiencing homelessness increased more than 3 percent nationally, with Los Angeles—which has one of the nation’s most constrained housing markets—at the epicenter of the crisis.
The industry’s moral imperative is clear, but support for efforts aimed at easing the homelessness crisis also makes good business sense. Here are just three ways getting involved in affordable housing will benefit your bottom line …
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Australia remains stubbornly indifferent to the increasingly harsh conditions of our fellow homeless citizens, our hapless next generation, and the very real economic costs of our indifference, preferring instead to enjoy the benefits of wealth and lifestyle conferred by our stubborn inaction – pour us another chardy please…
Introduced in The Fifth Estate, the highly respected Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) recently released its wide-ranging report, Towards an Australian Housing and Homelessness Strategy. In addition to its explicit recommendations, there are three implicit features of the report that warrant further elaboration in this discussion.
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Much of Port Fairy’s housing is reserved as tourist accommodation. When housing shortages made it difficult to attract and retain workers in regional Victorian tourist towns, businesses and councils had to get creative.
In places like Daylesford and Port Fairy, where as many as a third of all houses are holiday homes, hospitality businesses have been closing or adjusting opening hours due to a worker shortage exacerbated by a lack of rentable properties.
But now that the Victorian government is offering a $150 million regional worker accommodation package as a sweetener for cancelling the Commonwealth Games, those forward-thinkers are wondering if they will secure a share.