{"id":7985,"date":"2020-09-02T09:08:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T09:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7985"},"modified":"2020-09-02T09:08:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T09:08:47","slug":"rental-snapshot-shows-gov-must-invest-in-social-housing-retain-jobseeker-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/02\/rental-snapshot-shows-gov-must-invest-in-social-housing-retain-jobseeker-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Rental Snapshot Shows Gov Must Invest In Social Housing, Retain JobSeeker Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have said that Anglicare Australia\u2019s latest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicare.asn.au\/docs\/default-source\/default-document-library\/special-release-rental-affordability-update.pdf?sfvrsn=4\">Rental Affordability Snapshot<\/a>\u00a0update, released today, has shown that only a tiny percentage of rentals (1 percent or less) are affordable for Australians on low incomes, and this will only get worse if the JobSeeker payment is reduced in the coming months.<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Australian Greens Housing spokesperson, said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cRenters are doing it tough during the Covid crisis. With unemployment skyrocketing, many are struggling to make ends meet.<br \/>\n\u201cAs bans on evictions and rental increases are wound up across the country, we\u2019re at serious risk of seeing more people pushed into homelessness.<br \/>\n\u201cWe need to extend eviction bans nationwide and invest urgently in social housing. Building 500,000 new publicly-owned homes will be critical to solving the housing crisis and ensuring everyone has a place to live.<br \/>\n\u201cThe pandemic has revealed that the government has the ability to implement powerful measures to tackle poverty and homelessness. What is lacking is political will,\u201d she said.<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Rachel Siewert, Australian Greens Family &amp; Community Services spokesperson, said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe Government has no plan to manage the rental stress that is coming in just weeks when JobSeeker is back below the poverty line.<br \/>\n\u201cAnglicare highlights yet again 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\u201cEveryone in our community should have safe, affordable housing and an income to ensure this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have said that Anglicare Australia\u2019s latest\u00a0Rental Affordability Snapshot\u00a0update, released today, has shown that only a tiny percentage of rentals (1 percent or less) are affordable for Australians on low incomes, and this will only get worse if the JobSeeker payment is reduced in the coming months. Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Australian Greens Housing spokesperson, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/02\/rental-snapshot-shows-gov-must-invest-in-social-housing-retain-jobseeker-rate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rental Snapshot Shows Gov Must Invest In Social Housing, Retain JobSeeker Rate&#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-7985","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\/7985","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=7985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}