Evictions should be “completely prohibited” if they make people homeless, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing has said during a visit to New Zealand. […]
The biggest rort since WA Inc has allegedly been happening under our noses for the past decade, and it’s at the expense of the most vulnerable people in our state, who live with the threat of eviction hanging over their heads. […]
According to Infrastructure Australia, the body charged with monitoring the nation’s key physical and social capital, “without access to appropriate housing, people are unable to focus on other aspects of their lives (such as health, education and employment) and are unable to contribute productively to society”. […]
The Morrison government is struggling on many policy fronts, having to now address the consequences of policy neglect and drift, in some cases problems and challenges that were decades in the making. […]
Australia was already one of the most urbanised nations by the end of the 19th century.
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There is one important idea that might hold the key to solving our current problems: the nation-building project. […]
You’d be forgiven for thinking there is a building crisis in NSW. Little more than a week ago, the state government announced plans to introduce sweeping reforms to construction and building standards in response to a recent bout of media coverage on some small but significant cases of building defects in new buildings. […]
There’s something awfully jarring about contemporary public land privatisations. When we’re side-stepping rough sleepers in the street, it seems incredible that a Labor government can’t find a way to use our land for housing. […]
Andrew Barr is reported in “The Canberra Times” on October 11 as claiming that the “simplest, quickest and most effective way” to boost social housing stock in Canberra and across Australia would be for the Commonwealth to forgive all existing housing debt. […]
While much of the discussion on alleviating poverty has been on the undeniable need to raise Newstart and other base-level social security payments, SACOSS also wants to encourage a different approach to the land tax debate currently raging in South Australia. […]
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