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A new housing service has been launched to assist South Australians on low incomes or experiencing homelessness find permanent homes, after the State Government cut funding to peak housing group Shelter SA this month.
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South Australia’s peak housing group Shelter SA says it will continue operating at a reduced capacity after the State Government announced it would cut the organisation’s funding in October this year.
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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.
Social housing tenants will face a rent hike of up to $7 per week from next month in a move the State Government has labelled an equity measure, but advocates say will unfairly burden those living on the breadline.
The majority of new residential developments in the city have failed to meet a State Government requirement to include at least some affordable housing – with those that did meet the target selling the housing to investors rather than to low-income buyers.
Adelaide City Council should consider introducing a new affordable housing rebate to address a scourge of homelessness in the city, area councillor Robert Simms says.
