Advocates call for change as social housing crisis reaches new heights

Published 3rd August 2021

While government spending cuts to housing and homelessness over the past decade are set to exceed $1 billion, new data shows that private rentals and houses are more unaffordable than ever. 

Analysis from Homelessness Australia shows social and Indigenous housing and homelessness funding totalled $2 billion in 2013. Taking into account inflation and population growth, this figure should have grown to $2.7 billion, but the federal government has only budgeted $1.6 billion in 2023 – a reduction in real value of $1.1 billion.

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Source:
Maggie Coggan, 2021, Australia Pro Bono (https://probonoaustralia.com.au/)