ACTCOSS and ACT Shelter Housing and Homelessness Election Platform 2024

Everyone needs a home. A home where they feel safe, a home that’s secure, and a home they can afford.

Yet for a growing number of Canberrans, an affordable home is beyond reach. Our housing system is broken, and housing stress and homelessness is harming individuals, families and the wider community. Business-as-usual, with a reliance on the market to provide affordable housing, will not work.

The 2024 ACT Election presents a historic opportunity to change the path we are on and to deliver a decisive and generational shift in housing policy. ACTCOSS and ACT Shelter have developed a joint housing and homelessness election platform that sets out the reforms and investments we believe are necessary to tackle the ACT’s housing and homelessness crisis, with transformational investment in social housing at the core of the agenda.