The Aftershock report series on housing security by Impact Economics and Policy, commissioned by Homelessness NSW, NCOSS, and Community Housing Industry Association NSW, reveals 54,000 NSW households have entered or experienced worsening housing stress since COVID, with increasing homelessness to cost the NSW economy up to $2.5 billion over six years.
Read more about why social housing, tenancy reforms and rental assistance are needed to reduce the costs and impact of the pandemic and recent disasters.
August 31, 2021
The COVID-19 situation continues to unfold in Western NSW, across largely Aboriginal populations. Aboriginal people are identified as a clearly vulnerable community to COVID 19. Such vulnerability stems from chronic health conditions experience by Aboriginal people and under-resourced health services in regional and remote NSW.
