Julie Collins, Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness, recently labelled Australia’s homelessness crisis as “unacceptable”. On census night in 2016 the Australian Bureau of Statis
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Mission Australia executive Ben Carblis said his organisation was already seeing the impact of the reduced jobseeker rate.
Carblis said the jobseeker and jobkeeper payments were âfantasticâ during the pandemic and said support workers had heard many stories about the critical role they played in helping disadvantaged Australians.
âWeâre really concerned about jobseeker dropping and the impact of that, weâve seen it already,â he said. âPeople are anxious and worried about what it means.â
Governments across the country were repeatedly urged to use new social housing construction as a stimulus measure to drive Australiaâs post-pandemic recovery.
The Victorian government did just that, committing $5.3bn to build 12,000 new social housing dwellings.