page_title: Public housing
section_title: Australia
hierarchical_section_title: Public housing / Oceania / Australia
caption_attribution_description: Public Housing Towers, Waterloo, Sydney
context_page_description: Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local.
  Social housing is any rental housing that may be owned and managed by the state, by non-profit organizations, or by a combination of the two, usually with the aim of providing affordable housing. Social housing is generally rationed through some form of means-testing or through administrative measures of housing need. One can regard social housing as a potential remedy for housing inequality.
  Private housing, by contrast, is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a private developer or by non-profit organizations and such, as opposed to public housing, in which a government authority usually owns the property.
  Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the details, terminology, definitions of poverty, and other criteria for allocation vary within different contexts.
context_section_description: Public housing in Australia is provided by departments of state governments, with funding provided by both the state and federal government. There are over 300,000 public housing dwellings in Australia, consisting of low-density housing on master-planned estates located in suburban areas, and also inner-city high-rise apartments in Melbourne and Sydney.
  In recent decades, rooming and relief housing for the homeless has been privatised, and in recent years this housing has been sold off to avoid maintenance costs and capitalise on sales in a booming property market. In Melbourne, public housing stocks have been in decline for some time, sparking the recent Bendigo street housing campaign in which homeless people are being housed by the community campaign in homes left empty by the state government.
caption: Public housing high-rise in the Inner-City Sydney Sydney suburb of Waterloo, two of eleven such towers in three different estates spread across the Inner-City Sydney suburbs of Waterloo, Redfern and Surry Hills.
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