{"id":9639,"date":"2020-12-15T04:12:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T04:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9639"},"modified":"2020-12-15T04:12:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T04:12:29","slug":"alarm-bells-on-housing-stress-must-spur-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/15\/alarm-bells-on-housing-stress-must-spur-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarm Bells On Housing Stress Must Spur Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Housing spokesperson and Senator for NSW, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has responded to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/nsw\/housing-stress-set-to-rise-by-more-than-40-per-cent-in-nsw-report-20201214-p56nb7.html\">report by Equity Economics<\/a>\u00a0projecting a national 24 per cent rise in housing stress and 9 per cent rise in homelessness next year. NSW will be particularly hard hit with housing stress to rise by 42 per cent and homelessness by 19 per cent.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cThe alarm bells are well and truly ringing on housing stress and homelessness.<br \/>\n\u201cWe need the federal government to declare this a crisis and to look at all policy options to avoid this looming disaster.<br \/>\n\u201cA huge national investment in social housing in the coming years will be required to ensure everyone has a roof over their head. Housing is a human right.<br \/>\n\u201cIn the short term, homelessness services will need to be properly funded and there is no way we can let the Jobseeker payment go back to the pre-Covid rate.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Covid-19 response has shown us that homelessness is not inevitable. Governments can choose to either tackle or ignore it. It\u2019s our responsibility to make sure everyone has a roof over their head,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Housing spokesperson and Senator for NSW, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has responded to a\u00a0report by Equity Economics\u00a0projecting a national 24 per cent rise in housing stress and 9 per cent rise in homelessness next year. NSW will be particularly hard hit with housing stress to rise by 42 per cent and homelessness by 19 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/15\/alarm-bells-on-housing-stress-must-spur-action\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alarm Bells On Housing Stress Must Spur Action&#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-9639","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\/9639","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=9639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}