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Latest news: ACTCOSS

Homelessness Week: Vigil for the victims

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Homelessness Week begins today. The ACT’s first memorial vigil will be held tonight at Havelock House. Advocates call for action.

ACTCOSS calls for better measure of poverty in Canberra

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One in nine Canberrans lives in poverty, but ACTCOSS says better data is needed to measure its different forms and target government support.

ACT Budget: ACTCOSS’s view

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ACTCOSS CEO Dr Devin Bowles says the government has shown national leadership in responding to the growing number of struggling Canberrans.

ACTCOSS publishes 2026 cost of living report: ‘Truly terrifying’

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Rising prices are pushing more Canberrans into poverty and financial precarity, ACTCOSS’s cost-of-living report, published today, warns.

ACT restores rent relief fund after community sector pressure

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The ACT Government has restored the Rent Relief Fund it cancelled last year to the community sector’s dismay. A new $5.2 million Housing Crisis Support Fund offers short-term grants covering up to four...

Community services receive $58.8 million as demand rises

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Community services will receive $58.8 million in new funding, the ACT Government has announced, after months of warnings from sector leaders that rising inequality and cost-of-living pressures were pushing more Canberrans towards...

Electric trail bikes among ACT climate grant projects

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Electric trail bikes, climate-risk planning for charities, and multicultural education workshops are among the projects funded in the first-ever round of the ACT Government’s Communities Climate Action Grants Program. The grants fund projects...

Canberra organisations respond to Federal Budget

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Federal Budget responses: ACTCOSS. ACT Shelter. AMA ACT. Canberra Business Chamber. St Vincent de Paul Society.

ACTCOSS: Inequality on the rise in the ACT

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Governments must put equity at the centre of their budgets, as equity is “being eroded before our eyes”, ACTCOSS CEO Dr Devin Bowles warns.

Anglicare: Private rental market is broken and system is failing

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The ACT is the least affordable jurisdiction to rent in Australia, according to the Anglicare Rental Affordability Snapshot, published today.

ACT Greens call for more funding for community sector

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The ACT Legislative Assembly called on the government to consider doubling its annual funding boost to the community sector.

Ombudsman: Housing ACT failing to meet obligations as landlord

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Housing ACT has not always met its legal obligations as a landlord, with tenants living in mouldy, leaking houses, according to the Ombudsman.

Community sector calls for ACT Government to fund food relief

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ACTCOSS and VolunteeringACT have called on the ACT Government to prioritise the food relief sector in this year’s budget deliberations.

VolunteeringACT: Food pantries struggle to meet demand

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Nearly 100 Canberra families go without food every day, and demand for food relief services increased by a quarter between 2024 and 2025.

ACT cuts lease variation charges for social and affordable housing

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The ACT will reduce lease variation charges on Community Housing Providers (CHPs) or private developers with social/affordable housing.

Housing and homelessness worsening in Australia: ACOSS

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The federal government is spending more on property investors' tax breaks than on social housing, homelessness services and rent assistance.
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