Housing assistance and economic participation

This National Research Venture seeks to understand the links between housing assistance and economic participation outcomes.

The housing system and housing assistance interventions not only aim to meet housing needs, they also contribute to higher level outcomes, such as improved social and economic well being for individuals, families and communities.

Government is seeking a better understanding of the contribution that housing assistance interventions make to improving peoples lives. There is a need for government to more fully understand which attributes of housing assistance make a difference to the quality of peoples lives. The NRV will focus on the relationship between housing assistance and economic participation outcomes, where the latter is broadly defined to include employment, retirement, education and training decisions.

The overarching research question asked in this NRV is: how do housing assistance programs impact on economic participation outcomes once we control for the mediating effects that intermediary variables such as ‘health' and ‘neighbourhood' have on economic participation outcomes?

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