Welcome

Shelter NSW is a nongovernment, nonprofit, social change agency committed to working for a fair and just housing system.

Our focus is on advocacy and community education

Shelter advocates for the housing interests of low-income and disadvantaged people.

We are currently developing a campaign to deliver better housing for low-income people in New South Wales, called 'Somewhere to call home'. Our focus will be on change projects which can achieve specific results and they will be identified from the following critical housing policy areas.

Major areas will be:

increased supply/expansion of social housing
increased private supply/expansion of private rental housing for low rental
responsive public housing services by Housing NSW
sustainable home ownership for low-income households

Other areas will be:

homelessness and its links with housing unaffordability
state environmental planning policies and affordable housing
barriers to housing assistance for humanitarian entrants to Australia

Our advocacy work also involves responding to the changing context, for example, by writing submissions in response to inquiries. more…

Shelter also provides community education to build the capacity of nonprofit organizations to provide housing and housing-related services. more…

Become a member of Shelter NSW, to support our work towards a fairer housing system. more…

What's new on this website

We invite you to join us in our campaign for an increase in funding for social housing and new support for community housing, and we encourage you to write to your federal member of parliament as soon as possible. more…

Shelter lodged a submission on the Commonwealth Government's green paper on homelessness. Download (pdf - 44 kb).

We lodged a submission on state taxation to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal, supporting its draft recommendation for a broadening of land tax. Download (pdf - 50 kb).

We held a 1-day conference on the shape of public housing, on June 26 in Sydney. Some presentations are available here. more…

We have adopted a new strategic plan to shape our work for the next 3 years. Download (pdf - 40 kb).

Updated 05-Sep-2008