Settlement Guide: Growing anxiety about housing

Public anxiety about housing affordability is at an all-time high. Can the federal budget help those on low incomes, refugees and recent arrivals who are on public housing waiting lists? Poll after poll reveals that the cost of housing is one of the most pressing challenges confronting the Australian community. Hundreds of thousands of households are in a housing stress - when they pay more than thirty per cent of their gross income on their housing cost, whether theyre renting or owning.