Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA) is urging federal politicians to prioritise an agreement around the Housing Australia Future Fund and get on with building more social and affordable housing, as a new report highlights a desperate undersupply across the country.

Anglicare’s annual Rental Affordability Snapshot shows there are virtually no affordable rentals for a person relying on income support payments. For the first time, the snapshot shows less than one percent of rentals are affordable for a person working full-time on the minimum wage.

CHIA chief executive officer Wendy Hayhurst said the government’s Housing Australia Future Fund is a good start that needs to be established and then built upon.

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