COAG to receive housing report in April The Council of Australian Governments is to receive a report on housing and homelessness in April. A REPORT examining the current state of housing and homelessness in Australia will go to Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the state premiers in late April. The COAG Reform Council will use the latest census data for the report, which will examine how the National Affordable Housing Agreement is working. The agreement, which began in November 2009, was set up to provide $6.2 billion over five years in housing assistance for low and middle income earners. COAG Reform Council chairman John Brumby said the report would examine how the agreement was tackling homelessness, housing affordability, the efficiency of the housing market, indigenous peoples' access to housing and overcrowding in remote areas. "We will be using new data on homelessness which has never been given to COAG before," he said in a media briefing on Friday. The report is expected to be publicly released in June. The Council of Australian Governments will next meet on April 19.