According to an annual survey from The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) Australia is facing a housing crisis as community housing agencies failed to meet the demand for affordable housing. In order to conduct the survey, ACOSS asked 500 community agencies to participate. The survey showed that the need for affordable housing among welfare clients was a failure common among all the companies who were ask to participate.

Among the 500 companies which participated, two-thirds of the housing and homeless services reported that the demands for affordable housing were weighing them down; 62 per cent of the housing and homeless services said that waiting times had increased in the past 12 months.

Those companies providing legal services said that they have to turn away 20 per cent of their welfare clients and 63 per cent said that they can no longer provide for the huge demand of affordable housing.

Youth services on the other hand had to turn away 17 per cent of welfare clients with more than 52 per cent said they too can no longer meet the demand for housing.

According to ACOSS Deputy Chief Tessa Boyd-Caine, "Our overall findings paint a disturbing picture of a sector under critical pressure, including from chronic underfunding and uncertainty about the funding of services. The community sector is being undermined by severe underfunding and lack of action to deal with the national housing affordability and availability crisis.

Ms Boyd-Caine also put emphasis that there was a noticeable increase in "abysmally low" welfare payments like Newstart.

According to Ms Boyd-Caine, there had been a 5 per cent increase in the number of people denied by those housing agencies which cannot meet the demands anymore. Ms Boyd-Caine explained that an expensive house rent within Australia's major cities was the primary reason why Australians were compelled to live out in the streets.

She said that "Those median rents range from $360 to $40 a week, but if you're reliant on Newstart, the maximum income a single person will receive is $358 per week. It doesn't even cover a rental payment and leaves no money for food, for bills, for health costs or for transport. One in seven people live below the median poverty line and one in six children. That is simply not acceptable."

Meanwhile in other related report, consultants from Urbis property released a new real estate study saying that people with disability suffer socially and economically as their condition affect their housing options. The report said that the people with disability were compelled to live away from the cities and job opportunities. The report aimed that the DisabilityCare can provide them aid for better housing options.

In an interview with ABC NEWS correspondent Emily Bourke, Claire Grearly, the director of public policy at Urbis explained that, "People live in the lower income areas because they're affordable and that, as those areas gentrify, we've looked at areas like Footscray, and Redfern, Coburg North, and as Gentrify, that there is a risk of people with fixed incomes and low fixed incomes being pushed out of those areas due to rent or other reasons."

According to Ms Claire if the DisablityCare can provide the needed help, "people who are in those areas, which tend to have good access to transport and have their care and support networks in place, can continue to afford to live there because of the increased access to their own finances through the DisabilityCare.

However, Craig Wallace from the group People with Disability had an opposing view.

In the same interview with ABC NEWS correspondent Ms Bourke, Mr Wallace thoroughly explained that "People certainly know where to avoid and the places to avoid are generally the inner city (where high rent is). The sad thing is that those are also the places where the work is, where the employment opportunities are, where the education and training is... Purpose-built or modified housing does not need to built on the edges of our community, but should include inner city living, higher density housing options for people and things that are more normative housing options."

Mr wallace put emphasis on the fact that, "DisabilityCare won't do all of that... The impulse that we are all facing as the baby boomers retire, as our population ages, is that we're going to have people moving from inappropriate, poorly designed housing straight into nursing care, instead of being able to actually age in their own homes and make some modifications over time in a manageable way."