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No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s Housing Crisis Byron Shire Council: Our Housing Challenge 10 May 2019

Mortgages and Debt: how lending culture is leaving Australians vulnerable. ABC Online 21 August 2017

Changes in median property wealth 2003-4 4 to 2015 2015-16 16 1.4 AUD$ Top Bottom Millions 20% 80% 1.2 1.5 X 1 1.3 X 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 2015-16 2003-4 Sources: ABS Cat. No. 6554.0 Household Wealth and Wealth Distribution, Australia, 2003-04, table 6. NET WORTH QUINTILES, Household assets and liabilities; ABS Cat. No. 6523.0 Household Income and Wealth Australia, 2015-16 Table 8.2 Household assets and liabilities. Note: Property assets minus property liabilities

Percentage of low income households in rental stress Rental stress Byron Shire 54.7% 55 50 45 NSW 40 Australia 35 30 2007-8 2009-10 2011-12 2013-14 2015-16

Median Household Income $80,000 2 Bedroom Dwelling https://www.sgsep.com.au/maps/thirdspace/australia-rental-affordability-index/

Pensioner Couple $50,000 2 Bedroom Dwelling https://www.sgsep.com.au/maps/thirdspace/australia-rental-affordability-index/

Single Pensioner $25,000 1 Bedroom Dwelling https://www.sgsep.com.au/maps/thirdspace/australia-rental-affordability-index/

Single Person on benefits $20,000 1 Bedroom Dwelling https://www.sgsep.com.au/maps/thirdspace/australia-rental-affordability-index/

Anglicare 2018 Rental Affordability Snapshot Byron 0 0 Single Parent, Parenting Payment Single, Newstart or Youth Allowance 1 0 Family, both parents earning minimum wage Single, Aged Pension

Not for State Subsidised Profit Housing private Housing Authorities providers Providers

The provision of decent places for this section of the community is a national question that requires a solution which cannot be regarded as a business proposition, but rather as one that is just as necessary as free education and free medical services.

1. Private enterprise has been unable to overtake the housing shortage 2. If the people are so poor that they cannot give private enterprise the financial inducement necessary to build, then the Government must come to the financial aid of the people, and in larger measure than ever before imagined

Public housing as a share of all occupied dwellings NSW 6 % 5 4 3 2 1 0 2007-8 2011-12 2015-16 Australia NSW Productivity Commission Report on Government Services 2019

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