The Latest Breaking News from Kate Colvin

Long-term rental reform needed for affordability crisis

An increase to rental assistance has been welcomed by the nation's peak housing bodies, but they warn the measure doesn't go far enough to manage the crisis.

The New Daily · May 10, 2023

'Cascade effect' pushing people into homelessness after rental prices, property scarcity hit records

With the national rental vacancy rate at a record low for a fourth straight month, welfare workers say they are seeing more and more people being pushed into homelessness.

ABC News · May 3, 2023

Labor MPs condemn ‘discriminatory’ plan to increase jobseeker only for those over 55 in budget

Concerns growing that any changes to rental assistance will also fall along generational divides

The Guardian - AU · May 2, 2023

Labor social housing bill not enough to address older women homelessness spike, advocates say

Advocates say the federal government's housing plan is a good first step but is "insufficient" to help women aged 55 and older who are facing the highest rate of homelessness in a decade.

ABC News · Feb 21, 2023

Rents rising at slower pace despite 'record high' 10pc surge last year, CoreLogic says

Australian landlords passed on their biggest-ever rent increases in 2022, and the cost-of-living situation is unlikely to ease significantly for tenants in coming months.

ABC News · Jan 10, 2023

Demand for homelessness support soars

Thousands more Australians face homelessness as rising rents and cost of living pressure take their toll.

AAP · Dec 22, 2022

‘It’s hard coming home to a tent’: the rise of Australia’s working homeless

People with jobs and families will be seeing out Christmas in camping grounds and motels, as experts warn of a new kind of crisis

The Guardian - AU · Dec 16, 2022

Jump in homelessness as Australia’s rental crisis pushes ‘overwhelmed system to breaking point’

Vulnerable people and regional areas hardest hit, report shows, as experts demand urgent action to increase affordable housing

The Guardian - AU · Dec 5, 2022

Young Victorians caught in cycle of homelessness despair of missed education

Campaigners call on state government to act on crisis, as most young people who approach homelessness services are turned away

The Guardian - AU · Nov 23, 2022

Rental price growth slows from unprecedented highs as tenants hit ‘affordability ceiling’

Experts say Australia is ‘definitely still in a rental crisis’ but there is only so much people can pay

The Guardian - AU · Nov 2, 2022