Anglicare Publications

Anglicare’s submission into the Productivity Commission’s review of the National Housing and Homelessness Agreement emphasised the need for a rights-based, strategic national policy approach and associated funding to address the housing crisis now and into the future.

This report, prepared by University of Queensland Bachelor of Social Science students and based on a series of interviews with property managers in the private rental sector, explores how these property professionals respond to complex tenancies. The research focuses particularly on tenancy sustainment.

This article for the February 2021 issue of Parity, the national journal of the Council to Homeless Persons, shares the journey of the Queensland Home Stretch ‘extended care to 21’ campaign largely through the eyes of Aimee, the youth advisor to the Queensland committee.

This article for the November 2017 issue of Parity, the national journal of the Council to Homeless Persons, describes the trauma informed/recovery-oriented practice framework underpinning service delivery in Anglicare’s Homelessness Services Women and Families (HSWF) programs.

This article for the November 2017 issue of Parity, the national journal of the Council to Homeless Persons, highlights the limited rental options of people on low incomes evident in the 2017 Anglicare Southern Queensland Rental Affordability Snapshot (Brisbane Metro area).

As part of the Anglicare Australia national Snapshot, every year Anglicare Southern Queensland tests if it is possible for people on low incomes to rent a home in the private market. The 2018 report highlights some of geographic shift in disadvantage as more people on lower incomes are pushed to suburbs increasingly distant from job opportunities, transport and services.

As part of the Anglicare Australia national Snapshot, every year Anglicare Southern Queensland tests if it is possible for people on low incomes to rent a home in the private market. The 2019 report focuses on the particular challenges faced by young people in the rental market.

Queensland tests if it is possible for people on low incomes to rent a home in the private market. The 2020 ‘Snapshot’ data collection was uniquely held on the same weekend as the Australian Government doubled income support in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This report therefore comprises two ‘snapshots’, as it explores the difference the rate increase would make to people on income support if it were ongoing rather than temporary.

As part of the Anglicare Australia national Snapshot, every year Anglicare Southern Queensland tests if it is possible for people on low incomes to rent a home in the private market. The 2021 report explores some of the rental market peculiarities of the first Covid year, but concludes that rental affordability that year remained as bleak as it had been for at least a decade.

As part of the Anglicare Australia national Snapshot, every year Anglicare Southern Queensland tests if it is possible for people on low incomes to rent a home in the private market. The 2022 report is set against a ‘perfect storm of adversity’, including Covid, floods, increasing living costs, record low vacancy rates and surging rents.

As part of the Anglicare Australia national Snapshot, every year Anglicare Southern Queensland tests if it is possible for people on low incomes to rent a home in the private market. The 2023 report captures the desperation faced by Brisbane renters in a ‘catastrophic’ rental crisis.

As part of the Anglicare Australia national Snapshot, every year Anglicare Southern Queensland tests if it is possible for people on low incomes to rent a home in the private market. In response to the growing housing and homelessness crisis, in 2024 we expanded our focus from the Brisbane Metro region to the whole of southern Queensland

Anglicare’s submission to the Australian Government Select Committee on the Cost of Living drew heavily upon the lived experience of our clients and staff in managing during the current cost-of-living crisis

Anglicare’s submission to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee inquiry into the extent and nature of poverty in Australia argued, first, that poverty is a policy decision, not an inevitable fact of life. Second, we discussed the nature of poverty as a web of disadvantage that impacts every aspect of people’s lives.

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