Almost half of all low-income households in Queensland are suffering from housing stress due to a failure of governments to address the issue.
Despite a 13 per cent increase in federal funding over the past seven years, Queensland continues to lag behind the rest of the country in supplying social and affordable housing according to the state’s peak body for community housing providers (CHPs).
Chair of CHPs for Queensland, Josephine Ahern, said the issue was of vital importance to Queensland but one that’s probably not on the political radar of parties during the current campaign.