'Failing' affordable housing system 'requires decisive federal leadership'

May 29, 2018                      By: Naaman Zhou

Academics call for independent advisory body and long-term approach

A national housing strategy is needed to fix Australia’s “failing” affordable housing system, according to a report from academics at the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales and Curtin University.

The report, released by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Instituteon Tuesday, called for a coordinated “whole-of-government” approach and decisive federal leadership.

It said Australia’s housing policy was “weak and/or inappropriate” and public funding was inadequate.

Australia has a shortfall of more than 200,000 affordable dwellings. In New South Wales there are more than 60,000 households on the social and affordable housing waiting list, and more new dwellings were constructed between 1990 and 1995 than 1995 and 2010....................Read More