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The Federal Budget delivered a significant shift in national housing policy, with long-anticipated reforms to investor tax settings beginning to rebalance the system, alongside modest new investment to support young people at risk of homelessness.
This update includes
National Shelter’s Budget Summary | ACT Shelter’s response | Sector perspectives
On the Edge Film Screening | ACT FORUM: Retiring Australians in the Private Rental Market | National Shelter Federal Budget Review- Housing Priorities and Impacts | Save $500 registering for the National Housing and Homelessness Forum
Contents
- CEO Update
- 50 years of advocacy
- ACT delays adoption of new National Construction Code
- ACT Ombudsman releases damning report into Housing ACT’s management of tenant requests for repairs to public homes
- Missing Middle Housing in the ACT
- ACT Shelter Pre Budget Submission
- Landmark finding in ACT Supreme Court on the human rights of public housing tenants
- Housing ACT Waiting Lists
- Youth Homelessness Matters Day 2026 Canberra
- Webinar – Driving maximum benefit: lessons from a quarter century of public housing transfers
- Alcohol and Other Drug Information and Harm Reduction Training for Community Workers in the ACT
- Premier film screening: ON THE EDGE
- FORUM: Housing at the Edge – Retiring Australians in the Private Rental Market
- ACT Research, Inquiries & Consultations
- National Shelter news
- 150 MPs. 150 Pledges. – Everybody’s Home Campaign
- National Research, Reports & Consultations
- From the Shelter Office
