Australia is in the midst of a housing crisis. Those who are the most adversely affected are people on lower incomes or otherwise facing disadvantage. There is an urgent need to address the homelessness and affordability crisis and fix Australia’s broken housing system.
National Shelter has been operating as the national housing peak body since 1975. We remain independent, non-government, non-partisan and more determined than ever to advocate for better housing outcomes for lower income households.
National Shelter is well-positioned to work with Government and other stakeholders to shape a fair, sustainable and healthy housing system for all Australians. We acknowledge the housing policies, commitment and investment from the Australian Government in recent years. But the national housing policy agenda needs to be much more ambitious and reflect a greater commitment to action.
Today, we release a call to action to the Australian Government to fix the housing crisis.
Our 2025 Election Platform is centred around five key policies:
- A legislated National Housing and Homelessness Plan
- A long term social and affordable housing supply pipeline enabled by $2 billion per year of Commonwealth investment
- National minimum standards to deliver a better deal for renters
- A tax reform package to ease the housing crisis, increase affordability and reduce inequality
- A National Framework for Inclusionary Zoning to generate additional and recurrent affordable housing
See below for the full platform.
