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No.117: Risk assessment practices in the private rental sector implications for low income renters

This report focuses on risk-assessment practices in the private rental market, with particular consideration of their impact on low-income renters. It is based on the fieldwork undertaken in the second stage of the research process.

No. 120: New directions in planning for affordable housing: Australian and international evidence and implications

This research examines this international practice in planning for housing affordability in general and affordable housing in particular. The report reviews examples from the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as Ireland, Canada and the Netherlands. The research emphasis is on understanding the ways in which the planning system is used to support affordable housing objectives in each of these nations, and on the potential to learn from and transfer this experience to the Australian context.

No. 119: The cost-effectiveness of homelessness programs: a first assessment - appendices

The study utilises findings from a relatively small-scale, but, nevertheless rich survey of homelessness program agencies and clients in Western Australia. It provides important findings on the outcomes achieved by clients of homelessness programs and of the net cost of providing support to homelessness program clients as well as suggesting fruitful lines for further enquiry in an area where a significant dearth of evidence exists.

No. 119: The cost-effectiveness of homelessness programs: a first assessment

The study utilises findings from a relatively small-scale, but, nevertheless rich survey of homelessness program agencies and clients in Western Australia. It provides important findings on the outcomes achieved by clients of homelessness programs and of the net cost of providing support to homelessness program clients as well as suggesting fruitful lines for further enquiry in an area where a significant dearth of evidence exists.

No. 118: Housing consumption patterns and earnings behaviour of income support recipients over time

This project involved a complex and multi-faceted analysis of longitudinal administrative income support (IS) data. The study has been principally concerned with issues about patterns of housing consumption among people on IS. This includes the housing arrangements and circumstances of income support recipients (ISRs) over time, the possible relationships between changes in tenure, changes in income and other changes in the characteristics or circumstances of ISRs. The analysis has also been concerned about how these relationships and arrangements between housing and other factors might vary by discrete groups of recipients.

No. 116: The implications of loss of a partner for older private renters

This report aims to examine the effects of divorce, separation or bereavement on the housing and related financial circumstances of people aged 50 or over in different housing tenures, and in particular those on income support payments. Household dissolution results in loss of income and loss of economies of scale in consumption, which in turn affect the financial and housing circumstances of those who have been bereaved, separated or divorced.

No. 115: The costs and benefits of using private housing as the 'home base' for care for older people: secondary data analysis

This paper outlines research into the relationships between the costs and benefits of using private housing as the 'home base' for care for older people. Residential care requires relocation to the institution but provides both housing and care to older persons, whereas home-based care means that care is brought to the older person within their own home. The absence of economic evaluations of care at home for older people in Australia is significant, given that policy and care arrangements vary substantially from country to country.

No. 114: Towards a design framework for remote Indigenous housing

This report contains a policy-orientated synthesis of the disparate contributions to remote Indigenous housing from the design, policy and public health literatures as grounded and tested in fieldwork in three sample communities in different parts of Australia. This integration of primary and secondary research is used to develop a flexible set of guidelines to assist policy makers and built-environment professionals to respond to calls for 'suitable low-cost housing options' for Indigenous housing in remote and very remote regions of Australia.

No. 113: Child support and housing outcomes

This research describes the relationship between the payment and receipt of child support and housing outcomes. The focus is informed by diversifying family forms and household structures, which have implications for parenting, financial arrangements and the housing needs and outcomes of Parents Apart and their children. While these patterns are recognised as important social changes and policy challenges, they are relatively under-researched. This study seeks to discover how the payment and receipt of child support, along with the receipt of government income and housing assistance, affects the housing outcomes of Parents Apart (both resident and non-resident parents).

No. 112: The housing careers of Indigenous urban households

The setting of Indigenous social life in the towns and cities of Western Australia is the family community. The family community is an assemblage of kinsfolk who cooperate over time and distance economically, socially and politically. Housing is an integral feature of the economy of the family community in that the homes that belong to kinsfolk, whether rental or owned, constitute a resource open to use by the membership of the family community. People live primarily at one place, but may be welcomed as residents at one another’s homes for reasons originating in the need to maintain kin associations, or through lack of any available housing alternatives. The idea of being a part of a family community is among the most strongly held elements of Indigenous identity. The provision of housing to kinsfolk is one expression of this identity. The housing careers of Indigenous people will therefore be differentiated from those of non-Indigenous Australians by the ongoing involvement of kinsfolk in each other’s housing careers, often as co-residents at varying times and for varying periods of time.