The community housing sector is urging the federal government to double the Housing
Australia Future Fund to at least $20 billion to combat the halving of low-income housing
supply since the early 1990s.

A new Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA) analysis of Productivity Commission
government services data also reveals total social housing stock has grown at just a third of
the rate of Australia’s population in the decade to 2022-23. Public and community housing
stock numbers increased by just 21,744 or 5.2 per cent since 2012-13, far slower than
overall population growth of 15.1 per cent.

The result, as confirmed by the recent census, is that public and community housing has
dwindled to only 4 per cent of all housing.

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