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NSW housing factsheet A quick guide to housing facts and figures Shelter NSW www.shelternsw.org.au 5 May 2010 Enquiries: Mary Perkins (02) 9267 5733 ext. 14, 0419 919 091
NSW housing factsheet
Housing stress
NSW families in housing stress
As at 2007, 10.9% of NSW
families were in ‘housing stress’,
In housing stress, 10.9%
i.e. they were paying more than
30% of their gross income on
recurrent housing costs – that is,
387,876 families were in
housing stress out of 3,552,460
families across the state.1
Housing stress varies by tenure – Not in housing stress,
nationally, private renters 89.1%
comprise 61% of the families in
Australia in housing stress.2 Tenure profile of families in housing stress, Australia
In New South Wales, 59.4% of Other Outright owner
Public renter 5%
families experiencing housing 5%
3%
stress are located in Sydney.3
Homepurchaser
26%
Private renter
61%
Location of NSW families in housing stress
Rest of NSW
40.6%
Sydney
59.4%
2NSW housing factsheet
Home purchase
Sydney has the most heated Median price of houses, 4 capital cities
market for private housing 600000
amongst capital cities in 500000
Australia. Between the March
and June quarters 2009, Sydney 400000
moved from having the third 300000
most expensive median house
prices in Australia to first place. 200000
After Sydney, the most 100000
expensive capital cities are
Canberra, Darwin and Perth.4 0
Jun- Sep- Dec- Mar- Jun- Sep- Dec- Mar- Jun- Sep- Dec- Mar- Jun- Sep- Dec- Mar- Jun-
05 05 05 06 06 06 06 07 07 07 07 08 08 08 08 09 09
Prices for non-strata houses in Sydney Perth Canberra Darwin
Sydney increased by 9.6%
between the March and June Percentage of affordable purchase stock in NSW
quarters 2009. 100
There is an insufficient supply of 80
affordable housing stock 60
available for purchase in New
South Wales – in December 40
2009, 2% of home purchase
20
stock was affordable for very
low income households, 11% 0
Affordable purchase stock for very low incomes Affordable purchase stock for low incomes Affordable purchase stock for moderate incomes
was affordable for low-income
households and 43% was
Median price of NSW non-strata and strata dwellings
affordable for moderate-income
households.5 600,000
500,000
The cost of a new dwelling for
home purchase has been 400,000
relatively stable in New South 300,000
Wales over the last 3 years.6
200,000
100,000
0
Sep-06 Dec-06 Mar-07 Jun-07 Sep-07 Dec-07 Mar-08 Jun-08 Sep-08 Dec-08 Mar-09 Jun-09 Sep-09
NSW strata NSW nonstrata Sydney strata Sydney nonstrata
3NSW housing factsheet
Home purchase
There has been an increase in Median prices for strata dwellings, selected NSW areas
house prices in some local 800000
700000
housing markets, and a decline 600000
in others. This can be seen in 500000
median sales price for a strata 400000
dwelling in a sample of local 300000
government areas: 200000
Gosford – $304,000 in
100000
0
September 2007, $305,000 Jun-07 Sep-07 Dec-07 Mar-08 Jun-08 Sep-08 Dec-08 Mar-09 Jun-09 Sep-09
Manly Gosford Penrith Port Stephens
in September 2009, +0.3%
change;
Manly – $615,000 in
September 2007, $675,000
in September 2009, +9.8%
change;
Penrith – $240,000 in
September 2007, $265,000
in September 2009, +10.4%
change;
Port Stephens – $300,000 in
September 2007, $280,000
in September 2009, -6.7%
change. 7
Take-up of state government
financial home purchase
assistance to first homebuyers in
Sydney is greater in outer
suburbs than in inner and
middle-ring suburbs.8
4NSW housing factsheet
Home purchase
First homebuyer deposit gap as % of average household
Australia-wide, the deposit disposable income, Australia, Reserve Bank of Australia
required for a first home loan for 120
a median-priced dwelling is an 100
amount equivalent to 81.3% of 80
the average household 60
disposable income as at June 40
2009.9 20
0
The cost of meeting loan
Jun-05
Jun-06
Jun-07
Jun-08
Jun-09
Aug-05
Oct-05
Dec-05
Feb-06
Apr-06
Aug-06
Oct-06
Dec-06
Feb-07
Apr-07
Aug-07
Oct-07
Dec-07
Feb-08
Apr-08
Aug-08
Oct-08
Dec-08
Feb-09
Apr-09
repayments presents the second
financial barrier to home-
ownership for low-income Monthly loan repayments, NSW, $ per month
households. 4000
3500
Monthly mortgage repayments 3000
dropped significantly between 2500
the September quarter 2008 and 2000
the March quarter 2009, but they 1500
increased between September 1000
and December 2009. For 500
example, average monthly 0
repayments for a loan from the Dec-06 Mar-07 Jun-07 Sep-07 Dec-07 Mar-08 Jun-08 Sep-08 Dec-08 Mar-09 Jun-09 Sep-09 Dec-09
Sydney Rest of NSW
Commonwealth Bank in Sydney
have increased from $2413.00 in
the September quarter 2009 to NSW Supreme Court writs of possession issued and executed
$3,040 in the December 2009 500
450
quarter.10 400
350
300
In March 2010, 219 writs of 250
possession were issued by the 200
NSW Supreme Court. Of these, 150
100
76 writs were executed (so the 50
homes were repossessed) and 0
Mar-08 Jun-08 Sep-08 Dec-08 Mar-09 Jun-09 Sep-09 Dec-09 Mar-10
143 were not executed (because Writs issued Writs executed
mortgagors were able to make
last minute arrangements with
the lenders to avoid
repossession).11
5NSW housing factsheet
Home purchase
Census data from 2006 indicates Percentage of NSW very low to moderate-income households in
home purchase stress
that there are 58,052 very low 100
income households in home
purchase stress in New South 80
Wales, and 56,504 low-income 60
households in home purchase
stress.12 40
20
As at 2007–08, the home
ownership rate in New South 0
Very low income households in home purchase Low income households in home purchase Moderate income households in home purchase
Wales was 64.5%.13 stress stress stress
Housing tenure of NSW households, 2006
The tenure profile of households
with an Indigenous person Other tenure
1%
differed from that for the NSW Rented: other Not stated
3%
2%
total as at 2006. They were:
less likely to be homeowners
Rented: community
housing
1%
(36%, compared to 66% of Rented: public
NSW households generally), housing
5%
Fully ow ned
more likely to be in private 34%
rental (29%, compared to Rented: private
rental
22% of NSW households 22%
generally),
more likely to be in public
Being purchased
housing (21%, compared to 32%
5% of NSW households
generally), and
more likely to be in
community housing (5%, Housing tenure of NSW Indigenous households, 2006
compared to 1% of NSW Other tenure Not stated
households generally).14 1% 4%
Rented: other
4%
Fully ow ned
13%
Rented: community
housing
5%
Being purchased
23%
Rented: public
housing
21%
Rented: private
rental
29%
6NSW housing factsheet
Rental
The supply of rental housing is Rental yields on residential properties, Australia
8.0%
dependent on many factors. 7.0%
These include the relative 6.0%
attraction of investment in 5.0%
housing compared with the 4.0%
returns on investment in other 3.0%
areas, which is influenced by the 2.0%
1.0%
taxation treatment of each. 0.0%
Jun-88 Jun-90 Jun-92 Jun-94 Jun-96 Jun-98 Jun-00 Jun-02 Jun-04 Jun-06 Jun-08
Units Three-bedroom houses
Short-term income from rents
has not been a significant driver
of investment in this sector. Residential vacancy rates, selected NSW regions, March 2010
3.0%
Gross yields from investment in
rental dwellings (rental income 2.5%
as a proportion of dwelling 2.0%
value) averaged 4.8% for units
1.5%
and 3.4% for three-bedroom
houses in Australia, in June 1.0%
2008.15 The lower the gross 0.5%
rental yield is, the more
0.0%
overvalued the property is. Sydney Hunter Wollongong North Coast Central Tablelands
Vacancy rates for dwellings in Residential vacancy rates, selected NSW regions, March 2010
the private housing market are 3.0%
low. They also vary between
2.5%
regions as indicated in two data
sources.16 2.0%
1.5%
1.0%
0.5%
0.0%
Sydney Hunter Illawarra Mid-North Coast Central West
7NSW housing factsheet
Rental
Percentage of affordable private rental stock in NSW
There is a shortage of dwellings 100
for rental in the private market
80
for households with very low to
moderate incomes in New South 60
Wales – in December 2009, 14%
of rental stock was affordable 40
for very low income households, 20
33% was affordable for low-
income households and 69% 0
Affordable rental stock for very low incomes Affordable rental stock for low incomes Affordable rental stock for moderate incomes
was affordable for moderate-
income households.17 Percentage of NSW very low- to moderate-income households in
private rental stress
As at 2006, there was a shortage 100
of 44,000 affordable and
available private rental stock for 80
very low income households in 60
Sydney, a shortage of 5,900 in
Newcastle and a shortage of 40
3,200 in Wollongong 20
(‘affordable and available’ stock
takes into account the fact that 0
Very low income households Low income households Moderate income households
some higher-income households
rent the affordable stock so it is
not available for lower-income
households).18
Census data from 2006 indicated
that there were 107,187 very low
income households in private
rental stress in New South
Wales, and 59,117 low-income
households in private rental
stress.19
Other data shows that as at 2006,
there were 156,000 lower-
income NSW households in
housing stress living in private
rental – 88,000 were in Sydney
and 68,000 in non-metropolitan
New South Wales.20 Of those in
Sydney, 37,000 were families
with children. Of those outside
of Sydney, 23,000 were families
with children.
8NSW housing factsheet
Rental
The median weekly rent for Trends in median rents, selected NSW areas
private rental in New South 450
Wales was $300 in 2007–08.21 400
350
In the December quarter 2009, 300
the median rent for new 250
tenancies for all dwellings 200
increased by $5 to $400 per 150
week in the Sydney statistical 100
division. Median rents increased 50
by $15 in the Sydney statistical 0
Dec- Mar- Jun- Sep- Dec- Mar- Jun- Sep- Dec- Mar- Jun- Sep- Dec-
division in the previous year. 06 07 07 07 07 08 08 08 08 09 09 09 09
Gosford Manly Penrith
Outside the greater metropolitan
region, median rents for new
tenancies for 2-bedroom
flats/units increased by 2.8% in
the December quarter 2009, and
increased by the same
percentage over a 12-month
period. Median rents for 3-
bedroom separate dwellings
remained unchanged in the
December quarter 2009 but
increased by 2.0% over a 12-
month period.22
Median weekly rents for a 1-
bedroom dwelling in a sample of
local government areas reveal
some substantial rent increases:
Gosford – $161 in December
2007, $185 in December
2009, +14.9% change;
Manly – $380 in December
2007, $420 in December
2009, +10.5% change;
Penrith – $163 in December
2007, $195 in December
2009, +19.6% change. 23
9NSW housing factsheet
Social housing
Composition of social housing sector, NSW
160000
As at 2009, there were 140,523
social housing dwellings in New 140000
South Wales,24 comprised of 120000
dwellings from these sub- 100000
sectors: public housing;
80000
community housing; Indigenous
housing; and the Crisis 60000
Accommodation Program. 40000
20000
Slight movements in the supply
0
of social housing are mainly the 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
result of a very slow increase in Public housing Community housing Aboriginal housing Crisis accommodation
the supply of community
housing, which is edging Public housing dwellings, NSW
towards being 10% of the social 140000
housing stock.
120000
Between 2000 and 2009, there
100000
was a 4.8% decrease in the
supply of public housing (or 80000
5943 fewer public housing
dwellings) in New South 60000
Wales.25 There were 118,806
public housing dwellings in the 40000
state in 2009.26
20000
The number of people on the
0
public housing waiting list has 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
been falling.27 There has been a
51.8% drop in numbers of Applicants on public housing waiting list, NSW
people on the waiting list
between 2000 and 2009 (or 120000
50,924 fewer on the waiting
list). The biggest drop from one 100000
year to another was between
2005 and 2006, when a 21.1% 80000
drop was mainly due to a
tightening of eligibility criteria, 60000
announced in April 2005, and
reviews of the status of previous 40000
applicants. As at June 2009,
there were 47,413 applicants 20000
waiting for public housing.
0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
10NSW housing factsheet
Social housing
In 2008–09, there were 6,185 Proportion of greatest needs allocations to public housing, NSW
new allocations of public 100.0
housing tenancies.28 This 80.0
proportion of new allocations, at
60.0
5% in 2008–09, compares with
9% in 1999–00.29 40.0
20.0
Of the new allocations to public
housing in 2008–09, 47.4% were 0.0
1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09
allocated to applicants assessed
with a ‘greatest need’ – that is, a
priority allocation.30 This
proportion of allocations on a
‘greatest need’ basis compares
with 39.1% in 1999–00.31
Greatest needs households are
defined as low-income
households that at the time of
allocation were subject to one or
more of the following
circumstances:
they were homeless;
their life or safety was at risk
in their accommodation;
their health condition was
aggravated by their housing;
their housing was
inappropriate to their needs;
they had very high rental
housing costs.32
11NSW housing factsheet
Social housing
Of the new allocations to public Proportion of special needs allocations to public housing, NSW
housing in 2008–09, 63.4% were 100.0
allocated to applicants assessed
with a ‘special need’.33 This 80.0
proportion of allocations on a
60.0
special needs basis compares
with 54.7% in 1999–00.34 40.0
Special needs households are 20.0
defined as low-income
households: 0.0
that satisfy the Indigenous
1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09
household definition;
that have a household
member with a disability;
where a principal tenant is
aged 24 years or under;
where a principal tenant is
aged 75 years or more.35
12NSW housing factsheet
Social housing
As at 2009, there were 16,037 Community housing dwellings, NSW
community housing dwellings in
New South Wales.36 18000
16000
Between 2001 and 2009, there
14000
has been an 81.1% increase in
the number of community 12000
housing dwellings.
10000
There were 20,504 applicants on 8000
the community housing waiting
list as at 2009.37 6000
4000
There has been a 2.9% decrease
in the number of applicants on 2000
the community housing waiting 0
list between 2000 and 2009. 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Applicants on community housing waiting list, NSW
25000
20000
15000
10000
5000
0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
13NSW housing factsheet
Social housing
In New South Wales, there were State owned and managed Indigenous housing dwellings, NSW
4169 state owned and managed 4500
Indigenous housing dwellings in 4000
2009.38
3500
Between 2001 and 2009, there 3000
has been an 8.4% increase in the
2500
number of dwellings in this
sector. 2000
1500
In 2009, there were 1707
applicants on the state owned 1000
and managed Indigenous 500
housing waiting list in this
state.39 0
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Applicants on state owned and managed Indigenous housing
There has been a 43.5% decrease waiting list, NSW
in the number of applicants on
this sector’s waiting list between 3500
2001 and 2009.
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
14NSW housing factsheet
Homelessness
On census night in 2006: Composition of the homeless population, NSW
there were 27,374 homeless
people in New South Wales, Improvised
compared to 26,676 NSW dwellings, sleepers
out
homeless people on census 13%
Boarding houses
night in 2001;40 28%
26.1% of the total number of
homeless people in Australia
were located in this state;41
19% of the NSW homeless Staying with
friends/relatives
population was staying in 40% SAAPservices
19%
Supported Accommodation
Assistance Program (SAAP)
services (now known as
homelessness services);42
3,715 of NSW homeless Location of rough sleepers by region, NSW
people were classified as
rough sleepers – 1,182 were
located in Sydney, 547 were Capital city
located in regional centres, 31.8%
and 1,986 were located in Rural and remote
communities
rural and remote 53.5%
communities.43 Regional centres
14.7%
The rate of homelessness in New
South Wales has remained
constant between census nights
in 2001 and 2006, at 42
homeless people per 10,000 of
the population.44
15NSW housing factsheet
Homelessness
The number of closed support Closed support periods provided by homelessness services in which
clients were accommodated
periods in the form of 30000
accommodation provided to
homeless people by 25000
homelessness agencies in New
20000
South Wales in 2009 was
19,800.45 15000
10000
In New South Wales in 2007–
08, an average of 62.4 adults and 5000
unaccompanied children, and
32.7 accompanying children 0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
were turned away by
homelessness services every Daily requests for SAAP accommodation within 24 hours which
were not met
day.46
120
In New South Wales, the most
common reasons given for 100
seeking assistance from
homelessness agencies in 80
2008–09 were:
domestic or family violence 60
(18.7% of support periods);
relationship/family 40
breakdown (12.6%); and
problematic 20
drug/alcohol/substance use
(11.7 %).47 0
2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08
16NSW housing factsheet
Homelessness
Indigenous peoples are heavily Indigenous clients of NSW homelessness services
‘over-represented’ as clients of 7000
homelessness services – they
6000
comprised 18.1% of the total
number of clients in 200948, and 5000
comprised 2.2% of the general
NSW population in 2006.49 4000
3000
The average daily number of
requests for immediate 2000
accommodation that could not
be met by NSW homelessness 1000
agencies was 62.2 in 2007–08.50
0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
As at 2009, there were 1,511
Homelessness services relating to housing/accommodation
Crisis Accommodation Program required by clients that were neither provided nor referred to other
dwellings in this state.51 services, NSW
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Crisis Accommodation Program dwellings, NSW
1600
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
17NSW housing factsheet
Sources for figures
NSW families in housing stress. Ryanti Miranti and Binod Nepal, ‘Housing stress in Australia 2007’,
National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra, 2008, Table 1a.
Tenure profile of families in housing stress, Australia. Ryanti Miranti and Binod Nepal, ‘Housing stress
in Australia 2007’, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra,
2008, Table 3a.
Location of NSW families in housing stress. Ryanti Miranti and Binod Nepal, ‘Housing stress in
Australia 2007’, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra, 2008,
Table 2a.
Median price of houses, 4 capital cities. Australian Bureau of Statistics, ‘House price indexes: eight
capital cities – September quarter 2009’, ABS cat. No. 6416.0, Canberra, 2009, p.10. The table presents
data for unstratified (city-wide) median prices for established houses, by city, by quarter.
Percentage of affordable purchase stock in NSW. Valuer General, September 2009 (‘M3: ‘Proportion of
rental and purchase stock that is affordable’), Local Government Housing Kit Database (NSW Centre
for Affordable Housing), viewed 17 December 2009: .
Median price of NSW nonstrata and strata dwellings. Housing NSW, Rent and sales report, no. 89, 2009,
online at .
Median prices for strata dwellings, selected NSW areas. Housing NSW, Rent and sales report, no. 89,
2009, online at .
First homebuyer deposit gap as % of average household disposable income. Reserve Bank of Australia,
unpublished data provided to Shelter NSW, 29 September 2009.
Monthly loan repayments, NSW, $ per month. HIA–Commonwealth Bank affordability report, September
quarter 2009.
NSW Supreme Court writs of possession issued and executed. NSW Attorney-General’s Department,
March 2008–March 2010; data supplied to Shelter NSW, 5 May 2010.
Percentage of NSW very low to moderate-income households in home purchase stress. Australian Bureau
of Statistics, census 2006 (‘M2: ‘Number of households in housing stress’), Local Government
Housing Kit Database (NSW Centre for Affordable Housing), viewed 16 April 2009:
.
Housing tenure of NSW households, 2006. Australian Bureau of Statistics, ‘Indigenous profile: 2006
census community profile series’, cat. no. 2002.0, ‘Tenure type and landlord type by dwelling
structure by Indigenous status of household’, Table I18.
Housing tenure of NSW Indigenous households, 2006. Australian Bureau of Statistics, ‘Indigenous
profile: 2006 census community profile series’, cat. no. 2002.0, ‘Tenure type and landlord type by
dwelling structure by Indigenous status of household’, Table I18.
Rental yields on residential properties, Australia. Real Estate Institute of Australia data cited in National
Housing Supply Council, State of supply report 2008, 2009, p. 26.
Residential vacancy rates, selected NSW regions, March 2010. SQM Research,
, viewed 27 April 2010.
Residential vacancy rates, selected NSW regions, March 2010. Real Estate Institute of New South Wales,
‘NSW faces accommodation crisis for frontline workers if rental vacancies don’t improve’, media
release, 16 April 2010, viewed on 27 April 2010: .
Percentage of affordable private rental stock in NSW. Rental Bond Board, December 2009 (‘M3:
‘Proportion of rental and purchase stock that is affordable’), Local Government Housing Kit
Database (NSW Centre for Affordable Housing), viewed 27 April 2010: .
Percentage of NSW very low to moderate income households in private rental stress. Australian Bureau
of Statistics, census 2006 (‘M2: ‘Number of households in housing stress’), Local Government
Housing Kit Database (NSW Centre for Affordable Housing), viewed 16 April 2009:
.
18NSW housing factsheet
Trends in median rents, selected NSW areas. Housing NSW, Rent and sales report, no. 90, 2010.
Composition of social housing sector, NSW. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Housing
assistance data development series reports for public rental housing, community housing, state owned
and managed Indigenous housing, and the Crisis Accommodation Program. The number indicates the
number of tenantable dwellings as at 30 June of each financial year.
Public housing dwellings, NSW. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, ‘Public rental housing’,
Housing assistance data development series.
Applicants on public housing waiting list, NSW. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, ‘Public rental
housing’, Housing assistance data development series.
Proportion of greatest needs allocations to public housing, NSW. Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare, ‘Public rental housing’, Housing assistance data development series.
Proportion of special needs allocations to public housing, NSW. Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare, ‘Public rental housing’, Housing assistance data development series.
Community housing dwellings, NSW. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, ‘Community housing’,
Housing assistance data development series.
Applicants on community housing waiting list, NSW. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,
‘Community housing’, Housing assistance data development series.
State owned and managed Indigenous housing dwellings, NSW. Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare, ‘State owned and managed Indigenous housing’, Housing assistance data development
series.
Applicants on state owned and managed Indigenous housing waiting list, NSW. Australian Institute of
Health and Welfare, ‘State owned and managed Indigenous housing’, Housing assistance data
development series.
Composition of the homeless population, NSW. Chris Chamberlain and David MacKenzie, Counting the
homeless 2006, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Census Analytic Program, cat. no. 2050.0,
4 September 2008, Table 6.3, homeless people in different sectors of the population 2006, p. 35.
Location of rough sleepers by region, NSW. Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and
Indigenous Affairs, The road home, 2008, p. 4, table 1, rough sleepers by state and region,
unpublished table from Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous
Affairs using ABS census 2006 data.
Closed support periods provided by homelessness services in which clients were accommodated.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, ‘Homeless people in SAAP’, SAAP National Data
Collection annual report, NSW supplementary tables.
Daily requests for SAAP accommodation within 24 hours which were not met. Australian Institute of
Health and Welfare, ‘Demand for SAAP accommodation by homeless people’, SAAP National Data
Collection reports, Table 4.4.
Indigenous clients of NSW homelessness services. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,
‘Government-funded specialist homelessness services’, SAAP National Data Collection annual
report, NSW supplementary tables, Table 4.7.
Homelessness services relating to housing/accommodation required by clients that were neither provided
nor referred to other services, NSW. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, ‘Government-funded
specialist homelessness services’, SAAP National Data Collection annual report, NSW
supplementary tables, Table 7.5.
Crisis Accommodation Program dwellings, NSW. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,
Commonwealth–State Housing Agreement Crisis Accommodation Program national data reports.
19NSW housing factsheet Notes 1 Ryanti Miranti and Binod Nepal, ‘Housing stress in Australia 2007’, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra, 2008, Table 1a. The data refers to income units as families (a household may consist of one or more income units, where a number of people live together but do not share command over income). In this analysis, a family is defined as being in housing stress if housing costs exceed 30% of its disposable income and the family is also in the bottom two quintiles of the equivalised income distribution. 2 Miranti and Nepal, Table 3a. 3 Miranti and Nepal, Table 2a. 4 Australian Bureau of Statistics, ‘House price indexes: eight capital cities – December quarter 2009’, cat. no. 6416.0, Canberra, 2010, p.10. The table presents data for unstratified (city-wide) median prices for established houses, by city, by quarter. 5 Valuer General, December 2009 (‘M3: ‘Proportion of rental and purchase stock that is affordable’), Local Government Housing Kit Database (NSW Centre for Affordable Housing), viewed on 13 May 2010: . 6 Data from Rent and sales report, Housing NSW, no. 90, 2010, p. 2, online at . 7 ibid. 8 NSW Treasury, ‘First home benefits: top 20 postcodes by value – NSW – period: 1 April 2009–31 March 2010, viewed 28 April 2010 at: . 9 Reserve Bank of Australia, unpublished data provided to Shelter NSW, 29 September 2009. 10 HIA–Commonwealth Bank affordability report, December quarter 2009. 11 NSW Attorney-General’s Department, March 2008–March 2010; data supplied to Shelter NSW, 4 May 2010. 12 Australian Bureau of Statistics, census 2006 (‘M2: ‘Number of households in housing stress’), Local Government Housing Kit Database (NSW Centre for Affordable Housing), viewed 16 April 2009: . 13 Australian Bureau of Statistics, ‘Housing and occupancy costs, 2007–08’, November 2009, cat. no. 4130.0, p. 63. 14 Australian Bureau of Statistics, ‘Indigenous profile: 2006 census community profile series’, cat. no. 2002.0, ‘Tenure type and landlord type by dwelling structure by Indigenous status of household’, Table I18. 15 National Housing Supply Council, State of supply report 2008, 2009, pp. 25–26, citing data prepared by the Real Estate Institute of Australia. 16 SQM Research, , viewed 27 April 2010. Real Estate Institute of New South Wales, ‘NSW faces accommodation crisis for frontline workers if rental vacancies don’t improve’, media release, 16 April 2010, viewed on 27 April 2010: . 17 Rental Bond Board, December 2009 (‘M3: ‘Proportion of rental and purchase stock that is affordable’), Local Government Housing Kit Database (NSW Centre for Affordable Housing), viewed on 13 May 2010: . 18 Maryann Wulff, A Dharmalingam, Margaret Reynolds and Judith Yates, ‘Australia’s private rental market: changes (2001–2006) in the supply of, and demand for, low rent dwellings’, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute positioning paper no. 122, August 2009, Table 15 (based on 2006 census data), p. 34. 19 Australian Bureau of Statistics, census 2006 (‘M2: ‘Number of households in housing stress’), Local Government Housing Kit Database (NSW Centre for Affordable Housing), viewed 16 April 2009: . 20 Data provided by Judith Yates (August 2006) from Judith Yates and Michael Gabriel, ‘Housing affordability in Australia’, background report, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, February 2006. Housing stress is defined here as spending 30% or more of gross household income on housing costs in the case of households in the lowest two quintiles of the equivalized household disposable income distribution. 21 ‘Housing occupancy and costs: 2007–08’, p. 60. 20
NSW housing factsheet 22 Housing NSW, Rent and sales report, no. 90, 2010, p. 1. 23 ibid. 24 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Housing assistance data development series reports for public rental housing, community housing, state owned and managed Indigenous housing, and the Crisis Accommodation Program. The number indicates the number of tenantable dwellings as at 30 June of each financial year. 25 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, ‘Public rental housing 2008–09’, Housing assistance data development series. 26 ibid. 27 ibid. 28 ibid. 29 ibid. 30 ibid. 31 ibid. 32 ibid. Households with ‘very high rental housing costs’ are however excluded from the data for ‘greatest need’ allocations in New South Wales, as most applicants in that state face high private rental costs. (Otherwise, nearly all applicants in New South Wales would be considered to be in ‘greatest need’.) Therefore, the ‘greatest need’ data for New South Wales is an undercount. 33 ibid. 34 ibid. 35 ibid. 36 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, ‘Community housing 2008–09’, Housing assistance data development series. 37 ibid. 38 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, ‘State owned and managed Indigenous housing 2008–09’, Housing assistance data development series. 39 ibid. 40 Chris Chamberlain and David MacKenzie, Counting the homeless 2006: Australia, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Census Analytic Program, cat. no. 2050.0, 4 September 2008, p. x. The report uses a cultural definition of homelessness, which is comprised of: primary homelessness (people without conventional accommodation, such as people sleeping in parks and using cars for temporary shelter); secondary homelessness (people who move frequently from one form of shelter to another, such as those in emergency or transitional accommodation provided under the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program, people staying with other households because they have no accommodation of their own and people staying in boarding houses on a short-term basis, defined as 12 weeks or less); and tertiary homelessness (people living in boarding houses on a medium to long-term basis, defined as 13 weeks or longer – that is, they are staying in accommodation which is below the minimum community standard of a small self-contained flat). 41 Table 7 on homeless people by state and territory in Counting the homeless 2006: Australia on p. x refers to a national total of 104,676 who were counted as homeless in the 2006 census, but p. vii states that for policy and planning purposes, a national figure of 105,000 can be quoted. 42 Counting the homeless 2006: Australia, Table 6.3, homeless people in different sectors of the population 2006, p. 35. 43 Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, The road home, 2008, p. 4, Table 1, unpublished table from Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs using ABS census 2006 data. 44 Counting the homeless 2006: Australia, Table 8.3, rate of homelessness per 10,000 of the population, p. 46. 45 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, ‘Government-funded specialist homelessness services’, Supported Accommodation Assistance Program national data collection annual reports, NSW supplementary tables, Table 6.2, p. 22. On 1 January 2009, SAAP was discontinued as a separate program and specialist homelessness services were included under the National Affordable Housing Agreement. This resulted in some changes in the way the jurisdictions administer the agencies; for example, the number of funded agencies and the number of agencies that were required to participate in the data collection decreased from those reported in 2008–09. 46 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, ‘Demand for SAAP accommodation by homeless people 2007–08’, SAAP National Data Collection report, Tables 7.1 and 8.1. 47 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, ‘Government-funded specialist homelessness services’, SAAP National Data Collection annual report 2008–09, Australia, Table 5.4, p.35. 21
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48
‘Government-funded specialist homelessness services’, NSW supplementary tables, Table 4.7, p. 15.
49
Australian Bureau of Statistics, ‘NSW state and regional indicators, March 2010’, cat. no.
13381DO006_200903, Table 1, population summary table, NSW.
50
‘Demand for SAAP accommodation by homeless people 2007–08’, SAAP national data collection
reports, Table 4.4. The data covers SAAP services relating to housing/accommodation required by
clients in closed support periods that were neither provided nor referred to other services in New South
Wales, per year.
51
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Commonwealth–State Housing Agreement Crisis
Accommodation Program national data reports. The number indicates the number of tenantable
dwellings as at 30 June each financial year.
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