In 2024, Everybody’s Home convened Australia’s first People’s Commission into the Housing Crisis. The Commission heard from more than 1,500 Australians on the frontline of the crisis and over 120 organisations who support them. 

This Roadmap turns the Commission's recommendations into a plan to make renting more secure and more affordable by reforming tax and policy settings and transforming social housing in Australia. The roadmap is also intended as a commitment for political parties and candidates to endorse in the lead-up to the 2025 federal election.

The roadmap makes the following demands of the Federal Government:

1. Raise income support payments immediately. Housing assistance that meets people’s needs was a key recommendation made by Commissioners, and is crucial to improving affordability for those in the most dire need.
2. Coordinate nationally consistent protections for renters with State and Territory governments, protecting the rights of all renters by limiting rent increases, requiring longer and more stable tenancy agreements, and introducing minimum living standards. 
3. Reform taxes, in particular, phase out negative gearing and reduce the capital gains tax discount for property investors.
4. Use tax revenue savings to fund the expansion of social housing, working towards a target of 940,000 new homes within the next two decades.