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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bradbury, Bruce

Titel

Why we should increase Rent Assistance

Ist Teil von

• Australian economic review, 2023-06, Vol.56 (2), p.249-254

Ort / Verlag

Parkville: Blackwell Publishers

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• While the 2023–24 Budget saw the first real increase in rent assistance in Australia since 1990, this was small compared to the growth in real incomes over the three decades. Rapid increases in advertised rents, and expectations that these will flow through to average rents, make an increase in this payment all the more urgent. This article reviews the arguments for and against providing rent assistance to income support recipients in Australia and argues for a serious consideration of the 2010 recommendations of the Report into Australia's Future Tax System for a substantial increase in this payment.