Public Housing

Social housing tenants in inner Sydney have repeatedly complained about illegal squatters, they have been removed by police but they keep coming back.

Rose Jackson made the comment on radio as workers began fencing off 150 public homes to be demolished to make way for a mixed-tenure development.

Bug infestations, walls covered in black mould and broken toilets are just some of the issues plaguing homes in Australia's most isolated communities, where the landlord is the state government.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Australia stands with the family of a five-year-old Aboriginal girl, whose body was found on the outskirts of Alice Springs last month.

Property developers are using an affordable housing scheme to bypass normal planning requirements and win fast-tracked approval for contentious projects across Melbourne.

New public housing units built specifically for seniors are under construction in Sydney's south-west, despite opposition from some residents.

A report by advocacy group Homelessness NSW shows demand for priority social housing has more than doubled across the state in the four years to June 2025, with a 500 per cent increase in Wagga Wagga.

Australia's peak body for homelessness is leading calls for the federal government to pour at least $10 billion extra into social and affordable housing.

What if the sudden improvement in Iain's life, and the extra $600 a month in his pocket, can be traced back to a single policy decision made by a federal minister in the 1980s?

Residents are seeking to break their leases as a cockroach infestation at an inner-west public housing unit spreads.

A community housing provider says it can get tenants into empty public houses and rapidly deliver new modular homes in WA's Mid West. 

Under the proposed laws, landlords will no longer be allowed to terminate a tenant's lease without giving a reason.

Dana Wing says her family is experiencing the health effects of mould inundation in their public housing property in Tasmania.

Despite unsafe and unusable bathrooms, cockroach infestations eating through wiring and constantly damp carpets, some Tasmanian public housing tenants are having to get the regulator to intervene in order to get solutions.

An extra 7,000 social housing properties will be built in Victoria in the coming decade, with an initial $860 million investment in the state budget, the Allan government has announced.

Residents of the Central Australian community of Papunya say scorching outback summers are killing their people in unsafe housing. Now they’re suing the Northern Territory government to try to force change.

A women's shelter struggling to meet enormous demand says it will soon be able to almost double its capacity.

After a lifetime of caring for the elderly, Linda Braam is left battling for a place to call home.

A 55-year-old public servant is accused of illegally offering a social housing tenancy to her intimate partner, allowing them to skip a large number of applicants who were in the queue for a home.

A young woman says she has been left with "severe trauma" after fleeing violence only to months later still be fighting to find stable, suitable social housing.