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No. 01: Public housing rent policy in Australia and overseas

The research for this briefing was completed for AHURI by Sean McNelis and Professor Terry Burke. It presents the first comprehensive and comparative review of public housing rent policies in Australia and seven overseas countries, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.

No. 02: Housing assistance and employment

Because housing is expensive assisting low-income households with their housing costs is also expensive. In welfare systems where resources are inevitably constrained arguments for sustaining or increasing levels of housing assistance can be bolstered if it can be demonstrated that such spending is an investment, not only in housing, but also in better health, education or employment outcomes.