Secure and affordable housing is fundamental to the wellbeing of all Australians. It provides a platform for many of life's benefits, including stable employment, connection to the community and a sense of home. Unfortunately, many Australians are not able to access affordable, suitable housing with their own economic and social resources. Assistance provided by governments...

Private rental brokerage programs (PRBPs) are a key pillar of support for disadvantaged people accessing and sustaining private rental. This is in addition to more formal private rental assistance programs delivered by state and territory governments; and Commonwealth financial assistance in the form of Commonwealth Rent Assistance and tax incentives to increase supply (e.g. NRAS).

Registered housing associations and housing providers can now apply for grants to help buy and lease housing for women and children escaping family violence The grants are part of a ‘housing blitz’ in response to priority recommendations made by the Royal Commission into Family Violence. The new Rapid Housing Assistance Fund will have an immediate...

On 7 February 2016, public housing tenants from the remote Aboriginal community of Santa Teresa in the Northern Territory commenced unprecedented legal action against the CEO of the Northern Territory Department of Housing in an attempt to address the poor state of housing in their community.

This research recommends that housing assistance be provided under a tenure-neutral model. Currently households with similar needs receive fundamentally different levels and types of housing assistance depending on their housing tenure (i.e. owner, private renter, in social housing etc.) rather than needs. The research found that large proportions of households with diverse demographic characteristics living...