A ‘For Sale’ sign is seen outside an apartment block in Canberra, Friday, March 3, 2023. NO ARCHIVING National housing campaign Everybody's Home is launching a new inquiry, set to hear firsthand accounts from renters, people dealing with crippling mortgages and homelessness services.
Everybody's Home - a national campaign seeking to fix the crisis - is launching a new independent inquiry, called the People's Commission into the Housing Crisis, which is set to hear from community members - including renters, people with crippling mortgages and homelessness services. Everybody's Home is writing to Housing and Social Service Ministers, inviting them to take part in the process."The first thing we need them to do is really step up and start supplying housing itself. Back when housing was affordable in Australia, about one in three people who rented, rented from the government and about one in four new bills that was going up was being built by the government. Now it is an absolute fraction of that.
Several states have introduced reforms to the Residential Tenancies Act, requiring landlords to give a reason for ending a tenancy and only agreeing to the tenancy ending for what is deemed an acceptable reason.