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Issue 106: Child support can help to secure housing for resident parents and their children after relationship breakdown

The receipt of more than $75 per week in child support assisted resident parents living apart to secure better quality housing for themselves and their children. For non-resident parents living apart, the payment of child support appeared to have no measurable effect upon the standard of their housing. The ongoing obligation to pay child support was nevertheless identified by non-resident parents living apart as an additional financial stress that shaped their housing circumstances, such as preventing the purchase of a new home.

Issue 105: International practice in planning for affordable housing: lessons for Australia

Australia's land use planning system could be enhanced to better support and promote affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households.

Issue 104: The cost-effectiveness of homelessness programs

Homelessness programs produce positive outcomes for their clients at relatively low cost and can reduce health, justice and police expenditure.

Issue 103: What are the housing tenure pathways of income support recipients over time?

Most income support recipients have high levels of tenure stability. Less than 20 per cent experience multiple and complex tenure transitions. Changes in tenure over time are driven by a range of factors, with change of income level being only a Minor or secondary consideration in many cases.

Issue 102: Risk assessment practices in the private rental sector: implications for low-income renters

Risk, whether perceived or actual, is a critical factor for property managers in deciding who is allocated housing in the private rental market, and how the allocation process occurs.

Issue 101: A new design framework for remote Indigenous housing

A sustainable housing system for remote Indigenous communities requires six integrated elements: (i) culturally responsive design, (ii) eco-efficiency, (iii) healthy living practices, (iv) housing-related training and employment, (v) life-cycle costing of projects, and (vi) innovation in procurement, ownership and construction systems

Issue 100: How does the loss of a partner affect housing outcomes?

Losing a partner whether through divorce, separation or bereavement poses a serious threat to the housing and related financial health of those affected. In the two years following household dissolution from divorce or separation, rates of home ownership fell from 69 per cent to below 50 per cent.

Issue 099: Is the Australian housing system sustainable?

The current Commonwealth Housing Assistance system is fiscally sustainable in net terms, but only because future higher expenditures on Rent Assistance will be partially offset by lower expenditure on First Home Owner Grants.

Issue 098: Understanding the housing careers and aspirations of urban Indigenous households

The strongest forces shaping the housing careers of urban Indigenous Australians are long-term poverty, family and neighbourhood violence, and social housing accessibility and management practices.

Issue 097: What can Australia learn from international trends in housing and policy responses?

Recent Australian policy settings have been largely unresponsive to emerging housing challenges, such as trends to declining affordability and the greater polarisation of housing markets. While the scope and mix of policy levers required to address these issues in Australia may vary, this research suggests that there are common attributes associated with the most successful policy approaches overseas.