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21st century housing careers and Australia's future: literature review

A detailed profiling of housing assistance recipients relative to benchmark groups in the Australian population

A manual for raising non-grant funding for social rental housing

A review of the integration of State and Territory housing and disability policies in Australia: August 2006

This report investigates the extent of integration of state and territory housing and disability policies in Australia. Importantly, the report also provides a policy background and context for current empirical research being undertaken by the AHURI Southern Research Centre into the housing careers of people with disabilities in Victoria, as part of AHURI's National Research Venture 2, 21st century Housing Careers and Australia's Housing Future. References to Government policy are current at August 2006.

Administrator's Data Report

Affordability and access to home ownership: past, present and future?

Whilst it might be dangerous to use the past to predict the future, it is equally dangerous to ignore the lessons of yesterday in determining what might happen tomorrow. This paper examines the implications for young adults of the changing patterns of investment in housing over several generations. It provides a brief snapshot of three distinct phases in the evolution of home ownership: as an aspiration of households in the 1950s and 1960s, as a driver of inequality for their baby boomer children in the 1970s and 1980s, and as a fading dream of their grandchildren from the 1990s to the present. It begins with the rise of home ownership in the immediate post-WWII period and ends with the rise in rental investment that dominated the most recent house price boom.

An audit of alternative panel data set suitable for the analysis of housing assistance and economic participation outcomes

An audit of Australian and overseas policy initiatives designed to promote housing policy and economic participation goals

An ethnographic study of the day-to-day lives and identities of people who are homeless in Brisbane

Approaches to evaluation of affordable housing initiatives in Australia

The release of the Framework for National Action on Affordable Housing in 2005 demonstrates the commitment of policy makers to expand affordable housing initiatives in Australia. Building in evaluation strategies from the outset will be an important task for housing policy makers. This report provides an overview of ideas in evaluation theory and methods and applies this to affordable housing policy and practice, including a worked example of how to evaluate a particular affordable housing project.