Housing, Planning and Transport - ACTCOSS
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Housing, Planning and Transport

Affordable, accessible and fairly distributed housing, transport and community facilities are vital for the social inclusion, economic participation, health and wellbeing of all people. ACTCOSS advocates for reducing homelessness, housing stress or precarity and increasing community connection through the provision of adequate and sustainable infrastructure and urban planning.

ACTCOSS works with ACT Shelter and CHC Affordable Housing, and the Community Housing Industry Association on advocacy relating to housing and homelessness in the ACT.

ACTCOSS Position Statement on Housing

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ACTCOSS Position Statement on Planning and Transport

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4 November 2024 Learn more
Editorial

Social housing and community sector funding should be at the forefront of the next governing agreement

In a city full of politics, one of the ACT’s great political mysteries is why the ACT Government’s practical support for people experiencing poverty has gone backwards over more than a decade. How could this happen with such a progressive electorate, with governments that have been elected on their progressive promises over the last quarter […]

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1 November 2024 Learn more
Editorial

Now, post-election, it’s time for the most consequential bit of our democratic process

After the final seat in Brindabella went to the Greens’ Laura Nutall, negotiations around the formation of government began in earnest. It is vital to our democracy that this occurs transparently. In the ACT, it is historically rare for any one party to govern on its own. Negotiations are a feature of the ACT system, […]

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