Housing is a human right.

Australia is in the grips of a housing affordability and homelessness crisis.

• Reason calls for significant investment in a national public and affordable housing fund and:
  • propose to work with states to rapidly increase building more public and affordable housing.
• Reason supports the implementation the recommendations of the Federal Inquiry into homelessness, which include: 
  • funding additional crisis, emergency and transitional accommodation, and associated support services including pathways to long-term accommodation, for people at risk of homelessness
  • federal government to ensure the availability of an appropriate proportion of social housing and transitional, crisis and emergency accommodation which is accessible and appropriate for people with diverse needs
  • work with state and territory governments to review public order offences and other offences that disproportionately affect people experiencing homelessness, particularly rough sleepers, and those in a cycle of homelessness, with a view to minimising enforcement-based responses to homelessness 
  • work with state and territory governments to implement strategies to address the risk of exiting into homelessness from state institutions, including hospitals, mental health facilities, correctional institutions and out-of-homecare, including developing a nationally consistent approach to discharge planning and a national definition of ‘no exit into homelessness’.
  • Reason supports tax reform to remove distorting incentives in the housing market and include reforms which support build to rent. 
• Reason supports tax reform to remove distorting incentives in the housing market and include reforms which support build to rent.