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Efforts to find safe housing for homeless youth have gone backwards. Here's what the new national plan must do differently

What needs to change to greatly reduce youth homelessness in Australia? Now is the time to find answers to this question, and not just because it’s National Homelessness Week.

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Plea to pass housing fund after new funding pledge

Housing groups have called on the parliament to pass the multibillion dollar housing fund bill ahead of the long winter break.

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Referendum bill to pass on Monday while government pulls out stops to try to secure housing fund

Federal parliament enters its last week before the winter break ready to approve legislation for the Voice referendum but with the government’s proposed $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund still in the balance.

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To deliver enough affordable housing and end homelessness, what must a national strategy do?

The Albanese government came to office promising action on housing. Its A$10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund is now stuck in the Senate, with the Greens demanding more ambitious funding and reforms. The government is also working on its promised National Housing and Homelessness Plan.

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Greens' Max Chandler-Mather on the housing fund, rent freezes and migration

The government’s planned Housing Australia Future Fund has hit a roadblock.

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Michael Pascoe: Menzies knew housing couldn’t be left to ‘the market’

Even Sir Robert Menzies knew that it required large-scale government involvement to make housing affordable.

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Housing supply and affordability on new council agenda

The National Housing Supply and Affordability Council is meeting for the first time to advise on ways to get more people into homes.

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Building sector urges cross-party housing plan support

As the coalition prepares to oppose Labor's multi-billion dollar housing fund, the building sector says it's a sensible reform that needs support.

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Michael Pascoe: Labor spins a housing policy that does nowhere near enough

Labor’s successful election campaign including its housing policy was designed to just be a little better than Scott Morrison’s – a low bar.

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Nation’s greatest failure is housing, super the biggest success. It’s time to put the two together

Right now, one in 15 households are in housing stress and at risk of homelessness. Without intervention, this figure will rise to one in 10.

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Michael Pascoe: Government’s multibillion-dollar splurge on private landlords hurts public housing

The federal government spent more subsidising landlords over the past two financial years than funding social housing into the future.

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The ART of the deal: Queensland has a super plan for investing in social housing

What if there were a way to give super funds the returns they need while also letting governments tap Australia’s massive retirement savings pool?

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