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The housing crisis hit Queensland hard. Jolted into action, the state has raised its game.

Post-COVID housing stress has been especially intense in Queensland. Brisbane property prices have climbed by 65% since the pandemic began. That’s almost…

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Thousands of homeless people removed from Paris region in pre-Olympics ‘social cleansing’

Thousands of homeless people have been removed from Paris and the surrounding area as part of a “clean-up” operation ahead…

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Gendarmes oversee the evacuation of people from France's biggest squat, in a disused factory in the southern Paris suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine, on 17 April. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images

Migration has been blamed for the housing crisis, but it’s not that simple

Cutting permanent migration and capping student numbers won’t help much – but experts say it could hurt a whole lot….

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Media Release: Pinkenba site plans disappointing as homelessness crisis persists

Q Shelter and its members did everything possible to propose and enable the activation of the Pinkenba Quarantine Facility to…

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Soaring government spending on housing yet to ease rental crisis

A new report by Anglicare Australia shows rental affordability for people on low incomes is the worst it’s ever been,…

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‘Worst ever’: Low-income earners hit by soaring rents

The Australian dream of owning your own home is being “crushed” by rising rents and over-inflated house prices, a new…

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  • Queensland Statewide (all regions)
What Would It Take to End Homelessness?

Margot Kushel is having the moment she never wanted to have. Dr. Kushel is an internist at the University of…

  • Queensland Statewide (all regions)
Tasmanians struggle to feed families as public housing list hits highest point in a year

Thousands of Tasmanians have been left languishing on the state’s growing housing waiting list, new figures reveal, with the list…

‘They really made me welcome’: Hamez (left) with Leigh and Naomi Graham. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Guardian
  • Queensland Statewide (all regions)
How we live together: the couple who host homeless people

Austerity measures have affected our country and, particularly, our community. Food banks and homelessness have increased so dramatically that we…

  • Queensland Statewide (all regions)
Only three per cent of DV victims needing long term housing got it this year

There are calls for the Federal Government to address housing as a core component of support for family violence victims…

  • Queensland Statewide (all regions)
An interesting and ongoing correlation between homelessness and Christmas is not enough to shift the dial

So how should we respond to the Chris? Although it is often undertaken with the best of intentions, the answer…

  • Queensland Statewide (all regions)
As simple as finding a job? Getting people out of social housing is much more complex than that

A private member’s bill, moved by Labor MP Josh Burns, recently called on the Australian government “to help build more affordable…

  • Queensland Statewide (all regions)
Coalition’s first-home buyer scheme could worsen inequality

Fresh analysis has claimed the Coalition’s new housing deposit scheme worsens inequality and fails to address wider problems in the…

  • Queensland Statewide (all regions)
Community land trusts: cutting out the cost of land, to make home ownership more affordable

Renting or owning a home in Australia has become more expensive over recent decades. But in the United States and…

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