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Chalmers boosts Help to Buy scheme, construction sector

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... territories to spend on crisis support and to maintain and repair social housing. This includes the doubling of funding for homelessness services to around $400 million a year. Some $6.2 million will go towards homelessness research, advocacy and coordination. ...

Most retirees who rent live in poverty: Grattan Institute

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025
... "it remains inadequate," the report said. High housing costs for retirees without the means to pay will mean more homelessness, with research showing high rents have a greater impact on homelessness than illicit drug use or a history of being in state ...

Chalmers unveils new superannuation reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2024
... Delahunty said. "We have seen these tools play a critical role in advancing the national conversation on disability, homelessness and ageing, and the time is right to bring this type of planning to our retirement income system."

HAFF receives first round commitments

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
... Territory and include almost 1300 homes for women and children escaping domestic violence and older women at risk of homelessness. Approximately 700 of the homes are due for completion this financial year, ready for tenants to move in. "Housing Australia ...

Pensioners to pay more under aged care reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024
... that aged care is for people aged 65 years or older. For First Nations people, those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, it will be accessible from age 50 provided they have exhausted other alternatives and actively choose to enter aged care. ...

Budget 2024: Additional $11.3bn promised for housing

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... and additional social housing. In addition, a new $9.3 billion five-year National Agreement on Social Housing and Homelessness will be funded for states and territories to combat homelessness, provide crisis support and build and repair social housing. ...

Cbus scolded over 'most galling conflict' in super

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023
... homes specifically for women and children affected by family and domestic violence, as well as older women at risk of homelessness. However, despite the $10 billion HAFF initiative's ambitious goals, it pales in comparison to the one million homes ...

Government pledges $2bn to fast-track social housing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2023
... homes around the country." The $2 billion in additional funding brings the government's investment in housing and homelessness to more than $9.5 billion in the financial year to June 30. "At every opportunity, we have added to our already ambitious housing ...

Super funds have the power to make change: Advocates

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
... their members are, the Conference of Major Super Funds has heard. Athlete and disability advocate Dylan Alcott and Homelessness Australia chief executive Kate Colvin spoke on a panel about the way super funds can engage and communicate with diverse member ...

Giving hope: Recent regulatory wins

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... dwellings, 4000 of which will be allocated to women and children impacted by family violence and older women at risk of homelessness. A further 10,000 dwellings will be provided for frontline workers. The government is also expanding access to the downsizer ...
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