Modern homelessness effects everyone.
Most people think being homeless means living rough on the street, but the hidden homelessness epidemic is far more widespread.
Modern homelessness is couch surfing and hot bedding. It is people sleeping in their cars, living in garages, campsites and caravan parks. It’s upstanding everyday people from all parts of society. It’s nurses, ambos, police officers, teachers and hospitality workers. People we all rely on to keep us safe, healthy and educated. Hundreds of thousands more low to middle income households are under severe housing stress.
The lack of adequate and affordable housing is the most critical issue facing our society. The market is in failure and action must be taken urgently before the social fabric of our society is destroyed.
Safe and adequate housing is a basic human right. Providing that right is a fundamental responsibility of government. For decades it has been left to the private sector, and it has failed to deliver.
There is a solution. The government must step-up and commit to building 1 in 10 new houses.
We’re calling for more homes in place, for more Australians.
The new faces
of homelessness.
The new faces of homelessness are your child’s teacher, your local frontliner, the medical student, your gran’s oldest friend, your barista, the parent you chat to at school drop off. No-one is immune.
Understanding the problem.
Government after government has looked to the private sector to provide housing that everyday people can afford and the results have been catastrophic.
There is a solution.
ONE IN TEN
The government MUST commit to build one in ten new homes.
Housing was affordable when government built affordable homes.
Both sides of politics (aligned) built homes, and it worked for decades – 15% of new homes in the 50s and 60s and 10% in the 70s and 80s.
Now they build almost none.
We need government to build again.
