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25.01.2022 The Federal Government has announced plans to axe safe lending laws essential consumer protections designed to protect ordinary people from the sorts of terrible lending practices we saw during the global financial crisis and banking royal commission. The banking royal commission heard shocking stories of banks giving aged pensioners 30-year mortgages, relying on fraudulent loan documents provided by car dealers, and paying thousands in kickbacks to loan ‘introducers’. We’ll see even more of this if banks and other lenders are not legally required to take care when lending.

25.01.2022 Yesterday we spoke to homelessness services in two districts. Both of them are seeing decreasing numbers of homes their clients are able to afford - one of the major drivers of this is the rise of short term rentals - especially since COVID-19.

25.01.2022 Seriously, in 2020 this is how young men would act? Glad that the school acted quickly

23.01.2022 Unfortunately too many governments are stuck in short term election cycle thinking. Ending homelessness today saves money for years in the future.

23.01.2022 This is very sad news. Susan Ryan spent many years campaigning for access to safe and affordable housing for older women. She will be missed.

22.01.2022 At least 106,000 people in NSW will be in rental debt when the eviction moratorium ends. We are sure that this will be looked at in the soon to be released Housing Strategy, along with a plan to prevent homelessness and ensure an adequate supply of social housing.

22.01.2022 One of the common complaints about inflation is that it doesn’t measure house prices but this is not quite true. The consumer price index has since 1998 measured the price of dwelling purchases by owner-occupiers. Crucially though this measure does not include the cost of property. The reason is that property is about assets and wealth, not consumption.

22.01.2022 Wishing all the best as San Francisco tries to end homelessness but as Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness, says there were many reasons why an individual would refuse a housing placement. When representatives of the system say people are service-resistant, what it should be read as is a system failure, she said. The system is failing to adequately serve a person.

22.01.2022 If we cannot build social housing at scale now when homes are the answer to beating the pandemic, ending homelessness & providing jobs, then when?

22.01.2022 Employ people Build houses people can afford End homelessness

20.01.2022 This is one way to obtain housing people can afford to live in! Corporations paying appropriate tax and lobbying government to fulfill its obligations is another.

20.01.2022 Increased payments have enabled many people to maintain their home. Cutting these payments makes no sense economically or socially.

20.01.2022 Charities have been inundated with requests for help from people who can no longer pay their rent because they have lost their job due to coronavirus restrictions. It's led hundreds of organisations to call on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to increase Federal Government support for affordable housing. Kate Colvin is leading the Everybody's Home Campaign, and said 30,000 properties need to be built over the next four years.

20.01.2022 Australians are renting for longer and often permanently as home ownership grows out of reach for generations of working and middle-class Australians, and the national supply of affordable housing remains inadequate. As a nation, we need to carefully consider the implications which will result from a permanent shift in the ratio of renters to homeowners, including intergenerational equity considerations. Drawing upon local and international housing trends and regulatory frame...works, this report outlines six practical policy recommendations to ensure Australia remains a country where renting privately remains a dignified, secure, and just form of housing oneself and one’s loved ones. The report includes a holistic set of concrete proposals for immediate government action on housing affordability with a view to addressing long-run systemic policy failings. See more

19.01.2022 A fantastic opinion piece by Eileen Baldry. Being in prison does not rehabilitate more than half of those who are sentenced to prison go back behind bars, and most go back many times. Upon release, most people come out worse than they went in: they are poorer, have even worse housing than when they went in and are unemployed. This costs the taxpayer even more in public health, unemployment and other support services. We can and must do better!

19.01.2022 This is a good thing for so many reasons

19.01.2022 Despite the pandemic and a lack of international students rental prices in Sydney are also sky rocketing. If only homes were places to live rather than money making ventures.

18.01.2022 Some great research from AHURI. Exposure to energy hardship is particularly likely when vulnerable peoplei.e. those with very low or no income, existing health issues, lack of support networks, or who face entrenched disadvantagelive in dwellings that are in poor condition.... Mandating acceptable levels of thermal performance across the nation’s rental housing stock is likely to deliver a population-wide benefit. See more

18.01.2022 In the United Kingdom and countries like Austria and Finland, about one in six people live in social housing. In Australia, it's fewer than one-in-20, with decades-long waiting lists and pressing demand. We are increasingly being contacted by developers who know they will be unable to sell in the private market - they are approaching the NSW Government to buy them as social housing. This would keep people employed and reduce homelessness.

17.01.2022 2020 certainly showed that staff in homelessness services are essential to our community. Let’s hope that in 2021 while still being essential the circumstances in which we are working are not so dramatic.

16.01.2022 If we can house people on a temporary basis why not permanently? Seems a reasonable question.

16.01.2022 Good to see the NSW Govt pay attention to the findings of the peaks ‘Wave of Disadvantage’ report & invest $50m in small NGOs including homelessness services to help them adapt to increasing demand due to the economic impacts of COVID19.

16.01.2022 In many parts of Sydney rents have actually increased. Reducing Jobkeeper payments will push many people toward poverty and homelessness. Does not make much sense really.

15.01.2022 A survey report developed in partnership between the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS), the COSS network, Community Sector Banking, and the UNSW Social Policy Research Centre, said more than a third (36 per cent) of organisations have seen their financial position worsen throughout the crisis.

15.01.2022 When the jobseeker and jobkeeper packages were unveiled, visa holders were left out. Now a comprehensive survey of 6,000 international students and other visa holders lays bare the brutal consequences of that decision. This is short term thinking at its worse.

15.01.2022 Contracts for four organisations seen by this masthead show their funding will drop from the middle of next year unless the federal government agrees to keep covering its share of an equal pay order made almost a decade ago for workers in the sector. If there is no renewal, one organisation will lose about $100,000 over the life of its contract to deliver services to elderly and isolated people such as grocery shopping, home cleaning and taking them to social events.

15.01.2022 The number of older women on the unemployment payment has increased significantly, and more recipients are on the payment for longer, the research showed. This is not good news. We know that older single women are the fastest growing cohort of homelessness.

14.01.2022 330,000 extra people in poverty. Normally we allow 3.5 million people to live in poverty. In Australia this is unacceptable

14.01.2022 Last year Churches of Christ lodged a development application for a six storey mixed-use building with 55 boarding rooms at an estimated cost of $9.5 million. Churches Housing had identified about 10 sites belonging to the Churches of Christ and Uniting Church which could be transformed into affordable housing.

13.01.2022 Some great news from Victoria. $5.3 billion to build 9,300 social housing properties over 4 years - this will make a huge difference in ending homelessness & will create jobs. Would be great to see similar in the NSW Budget on Tuesday.

12.01.2022 For over a century we have known that veterans return with PTSD and other mental health issues. Homelessness and suicide are often the result. Canada has a Veterans Ombudsman. They address individual matters and make an annual report to the Parliament. Not sure why we don’t follow suit?

08.01.2022 A great read on what is needed to get the supply of social housing we need. According to AHURI’s modelling, overcoming the NSW shortfall in social and affordable housing would require a state government investment of about $3.5 billion every year until 2036. This might sound like a great deal of money, but since the broader housing sector already receives billions of dollars via negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount, governments could tackle the challenge by changing priorities rather than borrowing more.

08.01.2022 It is absolutely fantastic that people are willing to dig deep to assist others in need. But what we need to end homelessness is a commitment from the Federal Government and a supply of social housing!

08.01.2022 Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Women and children escaping domestic and family violence represent more than 30% of NSW homelessness service clients. To end homelessness we need to end violence against women.

07.01.2022 We could make the decision to around 85,000 construction jobs going! How you ask? Build social housing is the answer.

06.01.2022 We could be set for a double tsunami later this year. Just when many people will be seeing a cut in their benefits the very services they rely on will be struggling. It’s not as if the Government has not been advised of this issue.

06.01.2022 Poverty shock is looming for single parents who lost their jobs during the pandemic when the government starts winding back its coronavirus payments later this week. Single parents account for one in eight Australian families and they are more likely to be out of work in this recession. For those who have lost work during the coronavirus pandemic, free childcare and the Coronavirus Supplement initially cushioned the blow.

05.01.2022 Just 5000 of those Australians aged 55 and over or a drop of 0.8 per cent of this age group came off welfare in November compared to the previous month. We already know that older single women are increasingly at risk of homelessness - this cut will unfortunately drive more towards being homeless.

04.01.2022 A study of 100 cases during the first Victorian lockdown has illuminated the urgent need to remove barriers to support for temporary visa holders. It has also highlighted the need for changes to Commonwealth law and policy, so perpetrators are no longer able to use migration status as a means to control and abuse women.

04.01.2022 Prior to Covid, women over 55 were already the fastest growing group among the homeless. Research released in August estimated that 400,000 women over the age of 45 currently face this fate. Women who are in the private rental market, who are not employed full time and are a sole parent have a 64% risk of losing the roof over their head. If they have been homeless before, this risk increases to a staggering 83%! These figures are grim, but has anyone noticed? Is there an outcry? Does anyone apart from the women themselves - actually care?

03.01.2022 Based on the experience of other recessions, the modelling predicts that, by June 2021, we will see significant increases in disadvantage across NSW, putting more households under financial and psychological stress, and hitting people and locations already experiencing disadvantage the hardest. What will this look like? How will it play out across NSW? We can expect to see more people without a permanent and safe place to live. Our already shamefully high homelessness numbers (the highest in the country) will swell by close to 25 per cent across the state, much higher still in particular locations. And our overburdened, stretched-to-the-limit specialist homelessness services which for 2019/20 supported over 70,000 clients in NSW, 26 per cent more than they were funded for will be put under even more strain.

03.01.2022 We can make renting better. As it stands, a patchwork set of laws cover the rights and responsibilities of renters. Insecure tenure, rent hikes and unjust bonds a security deposit paid at the start of a tenancy rank among the common complaints of renters.

03.01.2022 Great to see - but have to agree re time taken. We went to a consultation on this prior to the 2019 Federal Election!

01.01.2022 Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were almost three times more likely than their non-Indigenous peers to have experienced living with no fixed address, living in a refuge or living in transitional accommodation.

01.01.2022 The increased cost of home ownership has nothing to do with a shortage of housing, but for many it will push home prices further out of reach. That's because in Australia housing is two things: accommodation and a form of speculation.