Taking stock: Perspective on the housing future fund- Antipoverty Centre issues paper | March 2023

This is a paper written by an Antipoverty Centre collaborator Mel Powersmith. Mel is a Disability Support Pension recipient and PhD candidate researching the effects of welfare residualisation on social housing tenants at the University of Queensland.

The paper goes in depth about the complexities of the vortex of Private, Social and Public housing and offers solutions that venture to improve the quality and amount of housing suitable to people on low incomes. It was prepared as part of the Antipoverty Centre’s response to the Labour government’s 2022– 2023 housing initiatives.

You can read the paper in full below.