{"id":6291,"date":"2020-04-30T03:50:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T03:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6291"},"modified":"2020-04-30T03:50:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T03:50:43","slug":"anglicare-report-reveals-depth-of-housing-affordability-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/30\/anglicare-report-reveals-depth-of-housing-affordability-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglicare Report Reveals Depth of Housing Affordability crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi and Family, Ageing &amp; Community Services spokesperson Senator Rachel Siewert have said that today\u2019s\u00a0<em>2020 Rental Affordability Snapshot<\/em>, released by Anglicare Australia, has highlighted the dire state of housing affordability in Australia, as well as the need for a permanent increase to the JobSeeker Payment (which has been temporarily increased for six months).<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Mehreen Faruqi said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe near-complete lack of rental homes affordable for people even on the increased JobSeeker payment underlies the need for sweeping changes to boost social and affordable housing in Australia.<br \/>\n\u201cThere needs to be an urgent increase to Commonwealth Rent Assistance combined with an expansion of social housing.<br \/>\n\u201cRenters have really suffered during this pandemic. While facing unemployment, wage losses and enormous instability, many have had to fight to keep a roof over their heads in a housing market that structurally favours property owners and landlords.<br \/>\n\u201cThe system is completely rigged, especially against people on low incomes. It\u2019s time for a complete overhaul of neoliberal housing policies that have led us here and to recognise housing as a human right.<br \/>\n\u201cWe need a massive increase in social housing by building 500,000 new publicly-owned homes and a reversal of unfair tax incentives that have contributed to the marketisation of housing over decades,\u201d she said.<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Rachel Siewert said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThis report highlights how important a permanent increase to the JobSeeker payment is in ensuring that no one is living in poverty.<br \/>\n\u201cEven with the temporary JobSeeker increase there are still very few affordable properties to rent for people on income support.<br \/>\n\u201cThis needs to be a wake up call to the Government, everyone in our community should have safe, affordable housing and an income to ensure this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi and Family, Ageing &amp; Community Services spokesperson Senator Rachel Siewert have said that today\u2019s\u00a02020 Rental Affordability Snapshot, released by Anglicare Australia, has highlighted the dire state of housing affordability in Australia, as well as the need for a permanent increase to the JobSeeker Payment (which has been temporarily &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/30\/anglicare-report-reveals-depth-of-housing-affordability-crisis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anglicare Report Reveals Depth of Housing Affordability crisis&#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-6291","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\/6291","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=6291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}