Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01281:clause:1ab_48
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Provision Reference: sch 1AB cl 48
Character Range: 364749–368238

48        Housing and Homelessness Service Improvement and Sector Support                                                                                      To fund:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) homelessness prevention initiatives to reduce the impact of homelessness; and
                                                                                                                                                               (b) activities that improve housing affordability; and
                                                                                                                                                               (c) research and activities of peak bodies to do one or more of the following:
                                                                                                                                                               (i) build the research base for effective policy that addresses homelessness and housing affordability over the long term;
                                                                                                                                                               (ii) identify best practice models that can be promoted and replicated and that will enhance existing housing and homelessness policies and programs;
                                                                                                                                                               (iii) build the capacity of the community sector to improve linkages and networks;
                                                                                                                                                               (iv) raise awareness of housing, housing affordability and homelessness issues at all levels of government and across the community.
                                                                                                                                                               This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) by providing medical services, family and maternity allowances, child endowment, unemployment and sickness benefits and benefits to students, and by engaging in measures incidental to the provision of those matters; or
                                                                                                                                                               (b) by engaging in measures to meet Australia's international obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly article 11; or
                                                                                                                                                               (c) by engaging in measures that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation; or
                                                                                                                                                               (d) in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth.