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The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs has released three reports on stage one of the consultations on
a national quality framework for services to people experiencing homelessness.
A more detailed options paper will be released later in 2010, to be followed by a second round of consultations. more…
The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute is inviting feedback on its discussion paper on proposed research priorities linked to Infrastructure Australia's report, State of Australian Cities 2010. The report covers issues such as social inclusion and equity, and submissions are due by July 30. more…
Ageing, Disability and Home Care sought public comment on a proposed Youth and Community Services Regulation 2010, which covers the obligations of licensees and licensed managers regarding residential centres. Submissions closed on July 13. more…
A round four call for
applications under the National Rental Affordability
Scheme opened on June 14, and will close
on December 14. more…
The Residential Tenancies Act 2010 was
passed on June 10. more… A
new Regulation, including a revised standard lease
and condition report, will need to be developed under
the 2010 Act and NSW Fair Trading has stated that this
will involve public consultation. more… The
Act and Regulation will commence towards the end of
2010. more…
The state Budget of June 8 indicated that the total Housing NSW budget for 2010–11 is $2,525.2 million. more… Shelter NSW welcomed the Budget but is concerned that it does not indicate that the government has prepared for 'post recession' and 'post stimulus' scenarios. more…
On June 4, the Council of Australian Governments
Reform Council released the first baseline
performance report on the National Affordable Housing
Agreement, reporting that 45.7% of all low-income
renter households in New South Wales were in rental
stress in 2008–09. more…
The third edition of the National Community Housing Standards Manual was released by the Community Housing Federation of Australia in May. more…
On May 2, the Commonwealth Government released a report from Australia's Future Tax System Review Panel (the Henry tax review report), which included recommendations to improve the equity and efficiency of housing markets. more… On that date, the Commonwealth Government also released its response to the report, Stronger, fairer, simpler: a tax plan for our future. more… National Shelter has expressed frustration at the government's response to the Henry tax review, stating that an opportunity to correct the market and facilitate a fairer approach to housing has been missed. more…
In April, Housing NSW released its Youth Action Plan 2010–2014, which focuses on responding to the housing needs of people aged 12 to 24 years. more…
The National Housing Supply Council released its State of supply report 2010 on April 27, which estimates that there was a shortage of 493,000 affordable and available private rental dwellings for lower-income households in Australia in 2007–08. more…
On April 27, the Productivity Commission announced that it will be conducting an inquiry into Australia's aged care system. Submissions on an issues paper released by the commission are due by July 30. more…
Also on April 27, the NSW Department of Planning released the 2008–09 Metropolitan Development Program report. The report estimates that the net long-term dwelling need for Sydney for the period 2006 to 2036 is between 24,400 and 26,600 dwellings per year. more…
Housing Pathways, a new housing application system which enables applicants to fill out a single application form for public housing, 27 community housing providers and the Aboriginal Housing Office, commenced on April 27. more…
A report by National Shelter and prepared by the National Association of Tenant Organisations on improving Australian tenancy law and preventing homelessness was released in April. The recommendations from A better lease on life include removing the ability of landlords to evict tenants 'without grounds', so as to prevent arbitrary and unreasonable evictions. more…
Updated
27-Jul-2010
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