Professor Paul Flatau

Professor Paul Flatau is Director of the AHURI UWA Research Centre and Director of the UWA Business School Centre for Social Impact.

Paul has published across a broad range of social policy fields with a focus on housing and homelessness as well as in labour economics and the history of economic thought. He has built up a strong portfolio of research in the housing and homelessness space. His early work in this field involved the measurement of poverty taking into account owner-occupied housing wealth. In the early 2000s Paul focused on a number of housing topics including the role of housing assistance in influencing non-shelter outcomes, Australian housing careers and a micro-simulation model of the housing market. In 2005 Paul completed a major study on Indigenous access to mainstream public and community housing and recently completed an AHURI study on sustaining Indigenous tenancies. His main work in recent times is in the area of homelessness where he conducted a study with Kaylene Zaretzky on the costs of homelessness and the cost-effectiveness of homelessness programs. He is currently engaged in a number of homelessness research projects including a project on intergenerational homelessness and another on service integration across homelessness, mental health and drug and alcohol services.