Independent MPs Push to Make Housing a Human Right

Access to housing would be recognised as a human right, with the Commonwealth Government required to improve the country’s supply, under a new proposal put to Parliament. Source: Yahoo News.

The private members bill introduced yesterday as part of a joint push by independents David Pocock and Kylea Tink to solve the abiding crisis in housing would force governments to maintain a 10-year plan in line with mandated objectives.

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The Mercy Foundation, a ministry of the Sisters of Mercy North Sydney Congregation is working to address homelessness, believing housing is a human right and that the solutions lie in structural and systemic change as well as in effective housing and support responses.

Read about the work of the Foundation on ending homelessness.