Housing assistance and economic participation
Summary
This National Research Venture comprised a suite of projects on the links between housing assistance and employment over three years. The NRV combined quantitative modelling of secondary data sets and in depth interviews with over 100 recipients of housing assistance.
Project Number: 30301
Research Theme: Public_and_Community_housing, Economics_Modelling
Project Leader: Wood, Gavin
Funding Year: 2004
Research Centre: RMIT-NATSEM
Research & Policy Bulletin
Issue 114: What can be done to improve employment outcomes among people receiving housing assistance?
Improving employment of housing assistance recipients will require removing financial disincentives to work in public housing rent and income eligibility policies, retaining security of tenure so that tenants can stabilise their health and build skills, and public housing that is better located to employment opportunities.
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Research Paper: Housing assistance and economic participation
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Audio Briefing: No. 02: Housing assistance and employment
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Research Paper: Housing assistance programs and their contribution to poverty and unemployment traps
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Research Paper: An audit of Australian and overseas policy initiatives designed to promote housing policy and economic participation goals
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Research Paper: An audit of alternative panel data set suitable for the analysis of housing assistance and economic participation outcomes
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Research Paper: A detailed profiling of housing assistance recipients relative to benchmark groups in the Australian population
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Research Paper: Housing assistance and economic participation (Stage 1 report)
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Research Paper: What has determined longer run trends in Public Housing tenants' employment participation 1982-2002?
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Research Paper: Econometric modelling of housing assistance and labour market participation
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Research Paper: Home life, work and housing decisions: a qualitative analysis
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Research Paper: The impact of housing assistance on the employment and wage outcomes of labour market program participants
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Research Paper: The relationship between public housing wait lists, public housing tenure and labour market outcomes
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Research and Policy Bulletin: Issue 114: What can be done to improve employment outcomes among people receiving housing assistance?
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Research Paper: Housing assistance and economic participation (Research plan)
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