Housing and Homelessness

Pandemic supports are ending. It's not going to be pretty.

“A single investment of this scale has not been seen in many decades, if ever. It’s a gamechanger.”

The REIV need to pull their heads in and retract this misguided, callous and dangerous directive.

The jury is in. Victorians want more public and community housing.

This is public health decision, and we don't quibble with that. But we need to get this right.

A plan to fight inequality, create jobs and grow the economy at the same time.

A Big Build To End Homelessness would stimulate the economy and put a roof over those most in need.

This package will mean renters can stay at home and help ‘flatten the curve’.

The Victorian Government has unveiled an impressive though imperfect list of minimum standards for rental properties

VCOSS and NATSEM analysis reveals there is not a single pocket of Victoria that is poverty free

Victoria’s peak social advocacy body has welcomed Victorian Labor’s pledge to build 1,000 new public housing units if re-elected.

Victoria needs an ambitious social housing building program to provide a roof to those most in need.

The Victorian Parliament has done the right thing by renters.

A 13.6% increase in homelessness demonstrates just how much work we have to do.

VCOSS has welcomed the Victorian Government’s Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Plan - a comprehensive and multi-faceted response to a

VCOSS is outraged the Victorian Parliament has blocked the construction of new public housing planned for Melbourne’s east.

The Federal Government is abandoning good faith negotiations with Victoria over homelessness funding and risking the wellbeing of thousands of

The Victorian Government has delivered a big win for renters, putting fairness back at the centre of the state’s tenancy

Victorian wages are failing to keep pace with skyrocketing rents, costing tenants thousands of dollars each year, a VCOSS study

Victoria’s peak social advocacy body has given qualified support to a State Government plan to make it easier for renters

The Victorian Council of Social Service has applauded the establishment of a new $1 billion Victorian Social Housing Growth Fund.

Victoria’s peak social advocacy body has warned not all Victorians are benefiting from the state’s social and economic growth, and

The 2016/17 Victorian Budget includes welcome measures to support people facing disadvantage and hardship, while leaving scope for further initiatives

Melbourne being named the world’s most liveable city by the Economist Intelligence Unit for the fifth year running fails to