In 2019–20, just over 800,000 Australians lived in social housing in over 436,000 dwellings across the country. The majority (69%) of social housing dwellings were public housing stock and Community Housing (24%) with increasing numbers in community housing. Commonwealth Rent Assistance was provided to just over 1.7 million income units at the end of June 2020.

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