State Govt tightens social housing eligibility rules

The State Government is significantly narrowing the eligibility criteria for social housing in a push to reduce wait times for Housing Trust properties and better target services to the state’s most vulnerable.

Work begins at neglected Parkside public housing block

Renovation work has finally started on a 21-unit State Government-owned public housing block that has remained empty and dilapidated for three years, despite $4 million being set aside for upgrades in 2018.

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SA public housing rent capped for Centrelink recipients

The State Government says social housing tenants whose Centrelink payments have been doubled in the wake of COVID-19’s economic fallout won’t be forced to pay extra rent.

Millions unspent as Parkside public housing block sits empty

Twenty-one State Government-owned public housing units in one of Adelaide’s most desirable city-fringe suburbs have remained empty and dilapidated for three years, despite $4 million being set aside for renovations in 2018.

$75m pledged for remote Aboriginal housing in SA Far North

The State and Federal Governments have signed a new $75 million agreement to improve housing for Aboriginal people in South Australia’s far north – nine months after the previous agreement came to an end.

Ratepayers to foot multi-million dollar bill for Govt housing conversion

Councils around the state will collectively lose millions of dollars each year as the Government gives thousands of Housing Trust properties over to not-for-profit providers, the Local Government Association says.