Submission to the Select Committee on Intergenerational Housing Inequity

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The St Vincent de Paul Society National Council of Australia (“the Society”) welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Select Committee’s inquiry on Intergenerational Housing Inequity.

As one of Australia’s largest charitable networks, the Society draws on its experience to inform its policy positions. In addition to helping people meet daily expenses, the Society also provides many forms of accommodation. These range from short-term crisis accommodation, transitional housing, medium to longer term community housing, accessible housing for people living with disability and specialist homelessness services.

St Vincent de Paul Society Housing Australia also holds Tier 1 registration with the National Regulatory System for Community Housing with 1,523 community housing assets of which most are long-term (56 per cent) or medium--short term community housing options (24 per cent).