Housing affordability

National Affordable Housing Agreement: Performance report for 2009–10

This is the council’s second year report on the National Affordable Housing Agreement, reporting progress against the objectives and outcomes compared to the baseline data summarised in the 2008–09 report on performance.

This report was submitted to COAG on 29 April 2011, and publicly released on 8 June 2011.

This report was considered by COAG at its 19 August 2011 meeting. COAG's response to the report can be found on the COAG website.

• Executive summary – DOC 177KB | PDF 184KB
• Full report (Volume 1) – DOC 3.18MB | PDF 1.56MB
• Performance data (Volume 2) – PDF 3.8MB
• Good practice report – PDF 464KB

Report by section:

• Executive summary – DOC 177KB | PDF 184KB
• PART A: Introduction – PDF 330KB
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
• PART B: Outcomes reporting – PDF 521KB
  • Chapter 2. Outcomes for people facing homelessness
  • Chapter 3. Affordability in the rental market
  • Chapter 4. Affordability for home purchasers
  • Chapter 5. Housing market efficiency and responsiveness
  • Chapter 6. Housing opportunities for Indigenous people
  • Chapter 7. Housing amenity and overcrowding for Indigenous people
  • Chapter 8. Improvements to the performance reporting framework
• PART C: National Partnerships that support the National Agreement – PDF 257KB
• Chapter 9. National Partnerships that support the National Affordable Housing Agreement
• PART D: Good practice and performance – PDF 250KB
• Chapter 10. Good practice and performance—affordability for home buyers
• Appendix A: Reporting of outputs – PDF 383KB
• Appendix B: Contributions of both levels of government – PDF 83KB
• Appendix C: Changes to the performance reporting framework – PDF 121KB
• Appendix D: Treatment of data issues – PDF 601KB
• Appendix E and F: Acronyms and abbreviations and References – PDF 179KB

National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness: Early assessment of progress

The COAG Reform Council was asked by COAG to provide an early assessment of progress under the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness (Homelessness NP) in response to the difficulties in measuring progress against benchmarks of the Agreement.

The Homelessness NP is the framework for the Commonwealth, States and Territories to work together to reduce homelessness.

We found the Homelessness NP’s performance reporting framework was—by and large—unworkable, and recommended a review to develop and implement a simplified performance reporting framework.

We submitted this advice to COAG on 9 July 2010.

COAG publicly responded to this advice at its 13 April 2012 meeting. COAG’s response can be found on the COAG website.

• Full Assessment – DOC 241KB | PDF 430KB

National Affordable Housing Agreement: Baseline performance report for 2008-09

The COAG Reform Council’s National Affordable Housing Agreement: Baseline performance report for 2008–09 is an assessment of the progress of the Commonwealth, State and Territory governments towards the six outcomes in the National Affordable Housing Agreement.

This report was submitted to COAG on 30 April 2010, and publicly released on 4 June 2010

COAG publicly responded to this report at its 19 August 2011 meeting. COAG's response can be found on the COAG website.

Some of the documents on this page have been made available in Portable Document Format (PDF) only. If you need further assistance with alternative formats, please contact the COAG Reform Council on telephone (02) 8229 7377 or by email to coagreformcouncil@pmc.gov.au