All posts by Hal Pawson
The housing and homelessness crisis in NSW explained in 9 charts
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Whatever the result of the New South Wales election on March 25, rising housing stress is a problem the new state government will have to confront. Soaring rents and an extraordinary lack of rental vacancies are intensifying housing…
Albanese government tackles housing crisis on 3 fronts, but there’s still more to do
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The Albanese government’s housing package moved a step closer to delivery with the recent release of draft legislation. The bills are expected to be tabled in parliament soon. After a decade of general federal disengagement from housing policy…
Homeless numbers have jumped since COVID housing efforts ended – and the problem is spreading beyond the big cities
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The numbers of people who are homeless have risen sharply across Australia, with soaring housing costs emerging as the biggest driver of the increase. The Australian Homelessness Monitor 2022, released today, reports that the average monthly number of…
The market has failed to give Australians affordable housing, so don’t expect it to solve the crisis
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The federal Labor government has promised to craft a national housing and homelessness plan and to fund new social housing, returning Canberra to a field it all but abandoned for a decade. A new Productivity Commission report is…