Shelter Tas submission to the Productivity Commission, Human Services: identifying sectors for reform

All Tasmanians depend on affordable, appropriate, safe and secure housing to sustain health and well-being and to enable social and economic participation; however, the Tasmanian community faces a shortage of affordable housing. Housing stress impacts on a quarter of the State’s low income households.1 According to 2011 Census data, 14,618 households are in housing stress. Read the full submission…