The Huffington Post has today featured an opinion piece on housing affordability written by the Anglicare Australia Executive Director, Kasy Chambers.

Today Anglicare Victoria launched a Raising our children: Guiding young Victorians in care into adulthood, a socioeconomic cost benefit analysis commissioned from Deloitte Access Economics. It provides the evidence of the wide economic and social benefit of extending support to young people in state care from 18 to 21 years.

The leaders of Australia's major homelessness service providers (Anglicare Australia, Mission Australia, UnitingCare Australia, the Salvation Army, the St Vincent de Paul Society and Wesley Mission) have written a joint opinion editorial calling on national leadership and political commitment to addressing homelessness. The charities urge all political parties to adopt the target of halving homelessness by 2025.

Anglicare Australia is campaigning with key not-for-profit partners for a national plan to increase the supply of affordable housing and to halve homelessness by 2025. Today it renewed its call for all the key players in this year’s federal election to commit to national action on housing and homelessness.

The leaders of the largest homelessness services are pleased that the Shadow Housing and Homelessness Minister, Senator Katy Gallagher, has reflected the call for a target to halve homelessness by 2025 when announcing Labor’s national affordable housing strategy yesterday.

Anglicare Australia today released its Affordable Housing position statement. “The critical shortage of affordable housing in Australia has a corrosive effect on social and economic wellbeing. Everyone knows the scale of the problem. But in this election, no party has yet proposed a national plan in place to address it” Anglicare Australia’s executive director Kasy Chambers said today.

Anglicare Australia has put its weight behind a united sector approach to address housing affordability at the Homelessness Summit in Sydney today.

On the release of the national 2014 Rental Affordability Snapshot at Parliament House today, Anglicare Australia Executive Director, Kasy Chambers has called for an increase in affordable housing and a dedicated federal housing and homelessness minister.

In its submission to the Senate Economics References Committee Inquiry into Affordable Housing lodged yesterday, Anglicare Australia warns of the widening chasm between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’ if housing un-affordability remains unaddressed.

Minister Andrews’ significant speech delivered at the AHURI’s National Housing Conference today, outlining his plan to boost affordable housing was, for those of us working in the field, a curate’s egg: good in parts, Anglicare Australia Executive Director, Kasy Chambers said today.