National Shelter is concerned the direction of reforms outlined in the Productivity Commission’s draft report are too narrowly focussed on the real and perceived problems confronting Australia’s Social Housing system whilst paying too little attention to the broader housing system.
Australia’s social housing system does a valiant job providing housing that is highly rated by tenants, provides security of tenure to almost all who reside in it and is the only housing in Australia which guarantees affordability. The failure of successive governments, both state and commonwealth, to invest in social housing to maintain an adequate supply of social housing is a failure of financing, policy and political will rather than a systemic failure of social housing systems. Read more…