Australian Housing policies

Australian Housing
policies

Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................... 2
Impact and effect of housing policies.................................................................................... 2
Changes in Housing policies............................................................................................... 2
National affordable housing agreement.....................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................... 5
Reference................................................................................................................... 6

Introduction
Social policies are inclusive of activities, guidelines, principles, and legislations which are
conducted for living and the welfare of human and improving the quality of life of individuals.
These are used by the government of Australia for the social protection and welfare of the
people. Social policies include social services, education, health, initiative, and housing policies.
This report includes an analysis of Australian housing policies. The government of Australia
considers the housing market as important which helps in influencing social and economic
aspects of society. Housing policies include the government action for the legislations and
impacts directly or indirectly on supply of housing and planning of urban, housing standards. In
the market of housing, government plays the role at two levels which are structural in which
government decides the policy framework for operating the whole market and next is directly
inverting of government in market for achieving the specific outcomes.
Impact and effect of housing policies
The influence of the housing market is divided into the commonwealth who is responsible for
determining the policies regarding the control of housing demand where state and territory, and
local governments of Australia are responsible for having control over the housing supply. It is
analyzed that the government of Australia provides approx. $6.8 billion for housing and
homelessness assistance (Lawson, 2012).
The government of Australia has reformed the National affordable housing agreement and
national partnership agreements on homelessness into the national housing and homelessness
agreement. The government of Australia provides grants to the state, territory and local
government for supporting the private sector for reducing the various costs of planning
infrastructure and help in saving the money for further purchases. The policies and legislations
are designed by government for creating the right incentives for improving the outcomes of
housing.