{"id":40886,"date":"2026-09-20T08:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=40886"},"modified":"2026-09-20T08:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:34:21","slug":"cook-labor-governments-increase-to-social-housing-income-eligibility-limits-is-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/cook-labor-governments-increase-to-social-housing-income-eligibility-limits-is-bullshit\/","title":{"rendered":"Cook Labor Government\u2019s increase to social housing income eligibility limits is bullshit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Greens (WA)\u2019s spokesperson for housing and homelessness Tim Clifford MLC, in response to the Cook Labor Government\u2019s announcement this week that it has increased social housing income eligibility limits by $17 for singles and $26 for dual-income households:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDo they expect people to be grateful? It\u2019s the lowest income limit in the country and it\u2019s a f*cking nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens (WA)\u2019s spokesperson for housing and homelessness Tim Clifford MLC, in response to the Cook Labor Government\u2019s announcement this week that it has increased social housing income eligibility limits by $17 for singles and $26 for dual-income households: \u201cDo they expect people to be grateful? It\u2019s the lowest income limit in the country and it\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/cook-labor-governments-increase-to-social-housing-income-eligibility-limits-is-bullshit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cook Labor Government\u2019s increase to social housing income eligibility limits is bullshit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40887,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40886\/revisions\/40887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}