Affordable Housing

NHFIC’s first report into the State of the Nation’s Housing and was developed in consultation with a wide range of stakeholders across industry, government and academia.
This report finds that the additional social housing dwellings announced by the NSW Government since 2016 are insufficient to address the current high numbers of people waiting to access social housing. Despite the NSW Governments commitments through Future Directions for Social Housing, the 2020-21 NSW Budget and the Community Housing Innovation Fund, both social housing total expenditure per capita and social housing as a proportion of total housing stock are in decline in NSW.
This research examined the barriers and challenges within the housing system for delivering housing supply that is more diverse in terms of size and built form; tenure; development model; and affordability level.
Providing safe secure affordable housing is a compassionate approach it is also good economically.
The research is based on analysis of customised data from the ABS Census of Population and Housing (the Census), using a method employed in all previous projects that enables comparison of results across the Census years—that is, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016. It provides detailed analysis of changes in affordable rental housing supply for lower income households, nationally, in metropolitan and non-metropolitan Australia, and in capital cities, satellite cities and other major regional cities.
Reimagining requires looking at how systems interact, and reshifting the focus from managing waiting lists as the centre of policy and practice, to an outcome that truly puts people at the heart of the housing system and building system capacities to ensure the right home for everyone.
Limiting socio-spatial inequalities can be considered a decisive goal for a degrowth agenda. Living within ecological limits by reducing production and consumption levels, striving for well-being for all and enhancing justice and democracy are shared principles in the degrowth research community (Schneider 2003).
This report communicates the independent performance audit by the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office (VAGO) of the Department pf Health and Human Services (DHHS) Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Plan (HRSAP).