Search Results for: home for good

Ageing
July 13, 2020

Home for Good: Communities for Wellbeing

In this fourth Home for Good policy brief, we explore ways to build ‘communities for wellbeing’. By this, we mean the ways in which good housing outcomes extend beyond individual housing circumstances to the context of neighbourhood and broader community.
Ageing
May 6, 2020

Home for Good: Social Housing for an Ageing Population

In this, our third policy brief, we turn our attention to Australia’s social housing sector. In the context of declining home ownership and growing housing insecurity among older Australians, we ask whether social housing can provide the three critical functions of home as we age.
Ageing
March 23, 2020

Home for Good: Improving the Private Rental Market for Older Australians

This policy brief, the second in a series looking at housing options for an ageing population, draws on the work of Per Capita and TACSI, to explore and propose new and innovative pathways for private rental housing.
Ageing
February 25, 2020

Home for Good

This policy brief is intended to restore the idea of home as both a psychological and social asset to our discourse on housing, rather than just a financial asset. It is specifically concerned with the role of the home as we age, positing that successful ageing is dependent on a person’s access to a home that provides security, community, safety and autonomy.
Blog
June 6, 2025

The housing disaster is a national emergency – good thing Australia is excellent at navigating emergencies

Sarah McKenzie, Acting Executive Director   The National Housing Supply and Affordability Council’s State of the Housing System 2025 Report, published in May this year, paints a grim picture of the state of Australia’s housing system. It is more than a housing crisis, it has become a full-scale national disaster. It is chronic and worsening, ... Read more
Our Media
March 29, 2025

How Stuart bought the home he loved, without the bank of mum and dad – Elizabeth Redman

Stuart Thompson was in his mid-30s and living in a share house when he realised he was now getting paid enough to think about saving for a home.
Our Media
November 19, 2024

Older Australians spend big thanks to home ownership, while younger citizens struggle – Matthew Elmas

Young Australians are bearing the brunt of the cost-of-living crisis, with experts warning that falling rates of home ownership are making generational inequality worse.
Our Media
December 9, 2023

‘Good story’ for workers but will Labor’s fair go agenda pay off?

Labour hire workers will now need to be paid at least as much as direct employees when doing the same work.
Our Media
September 3, 2023

Industry experts say young people need family financial support to purchase a home

Many young Australians, desperate to get into their first home, say it would be an impossible dream without family support in the form of an early inheritance or ‘pledge’ loans. A majority of young Australians are relying on an early inheritance to enter the property market and $3.5 trillion will be transferred between generations in the next two decades, industry experts say.
August 29, 2022

Jobs and Skills Summit is good start to ensuring workers are no longer left behind

An op ed from John Falzon in The Canberra Times
Blog
August 8, 2019

Speech: John Falzon at the Don Dunstan Foundation’s Homelessness Conference

Homelessness and the house of lies Don Dunstan Foundation’s Homelessness Conference, Adelaide, 07 August 2019 Dr John Falzon Senior Fellow, Inequality and Social Justice I remember learning an important lesson From a young woman experiencing homelessness in Melbourne. Everyone was walking past her, refusing to meet her eyes. She wasn’t asking for somewhere to live. ... Read more
Our Media
March 9, 2017

To tackle housing affordability Scott Morrison must get more homes built

9 March 2017, The Guardian. by Stephen Koukoulas. The treasurer wants to do something in the budget to make homes more affordable but he has few levers to pull.