Community Housing Provision

Breaking Ground is the follow-up ‘one year on’ progress report of the 2023 landmark report, A Blueprint for tackling Queensland’s housing crisis. It was the first of its kind in Australia to outline a comprehensive, evidence-based reform package to tackle the housing crisis at a state level.
Home in Place has made a submission to the Everybody’s Home People’s Commission. The People’s Commission into the Housing Crisis provides a platform for everyday people and organisations to share their stories of housing insecurity. The testimony will culminate in a series of recommendations to fix Australia’s housing crisis. Home in Place’s submission provides insights into the housing crisis, its flow-on effects, and the steps that governments can take to solve the crisis.
Housing is a critical social determinant of health that can be addressed through hospital-supported community benefit programming. Currently, a small subset of hospitals nationally are addressing housing. Hospitals may need additional policy support, external partnerships, and technical assistance to address housing in their communities.
Drawing on 75 in-depth interviews with waitees in NSW, Queensland and Tasmania, this report gives a voice to waitees. It maps why people decide to apply for social housing, the challenges they face applying, their living circumstances whilst waiting and importantly the impacts of waiting.
Liveability and accessibility in higher density urban housing and precincts are critical to maximise investment and minimise future risks to our community.This research was guided by a need to shift from a cost-based focus to better understanding the benefits and long-term value derived from liveable and accessible housing precincts. It aims to build a better understanding also of government, industry and not-for-profit roles in shaping industry structure and driving new urban forms, and improving the adoption of liveable and accessible design outcomes.The research has developed a Liveability Framework for Medium to High-density Social and Affordable Housing. The intent is for the framework to be used by our SBEnrc partners, and the social and affordable housing sector.

Every year, Anglicare Australia surveys rental listings across Australia to see what it is like for people on low incomes…

The Future Social Housing Fund could, if matched state funding was forthcoming, provide 6,000 social homes a year – enough to stabilise the social housing share of the total housing stock. It would double the total social housing build to 48,000 new homes by 2030, and 108,000 by 2040.
Australian capital city dwelling prices will peak in the first half of 2022, with growth slowing down sharply due to expected further intervention by the banking regulator to restrict home lending, according to Christopher’s Housing Boom and Bust Report 2022