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No. 181: Multi-generation households in Australian cities

This Essay provided an analysis of the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of people living in multi-generation households in Australia and how these have changed since the 1980s, using the cities of Sydney and Brisbane as two contrasting case studies.

No. 180: Exploring the use of residual measures of housing affordability in Australia: methodologies and concepts

The concept of housing affordability has a central role in Australian housing research. The dominant approach to defining and measuring housing affordability has been the ratio approach. This Essay explores the potential advantages of greater use of residual measures of housing affordability as a supplement to the ratio approach for Australian housing policy and research.

No. 179: The role of assertive outreach in ending 'rough sleeping'

This study examines 'assertive outreach' as a recent and developing, policy-driven approach to ending homelessness for people sleeping rough in Australia. It is concerned with how assertive outreach has been conceptualised and implemented into practice in Australia and the extent to which it is achieving its policy intent. The study is essentially a formative review and aims to elicit the perspectives and experiences of policy-makers, service providers and service users within diverse contextual environments, drawing on three Australian case studies.

No. 178: Housing assistance, social inclusion and people living with a disability

This Final Report outlines the findings of research addressing two pressing conceptual and policy challenges: 1. What impact does housing assistance have on social inclusion for people with disabilities? 2. How can governments ensure that they maximise the social inclusion benefits from the housing assistance they provide now and into the future?

No. 177: At home and in place? The role of housing in social inclusion

This is the Final Report from a project that aims to enhance understanding of aspects of home, housing and place which interact with social and economic disadvantage and the ways in which housing-related policies and programs can promote social inclusion.

No. 176: The residual income method: a new lens on housing affordability and market behaviour

This study was designed to explore the viability of an alternative method of measuring affordability (the residual income method) to that of the ubiquitous 30 per cent benchmark method and to use this alternative method for enriching understanding around a range of affordability and housing market issues.

No. 175: The impacts of the Henry Review recommendations on the private rental market—Savings income discount and rent assistance

This is the first of two Final Reports that aims to address the following research question highlighted in AHURI’s housing supply research brief: What is the impact on supply and affordability from implementation of the Henry Review recommendations in relation to negative gearing, land tax and stamp duty?

No. 174: Age-specific housing and care for low to moderate income older people

This report presents the final findings of a national, interdisciplinary research project into age-specific housing for lower-income older Australians. The key research aim addressed in this report is to assess Australia’s current age-specific housing market and its potential growth among low to moderate income older people, in order to develop effective policy strategies for the provision of age-specific housing for this disadvantaged group.

No. 173: The health impacts of housing: toward a policy-relevant research agenda

Housing is central to our lives. And while it may be seen on one level as principally about shelter, housing importantly provides other benefits. Affordable, appropriate, and adequate housing is argued to have a marked impact on people’s health, their access to labour markets, and an array of other benefits. The ways in which housing impacts upon human health is considered in this report which presents a scoping study of the health impacts of housing. This study has been undertaken using the new AHURI Investigative Panel methodology. It was set out to establish the current level of knowledge and major research gaps in the housing and health field.

No. 172: Urban social housing for Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders: respecting culture and adapting services

This project built on a previous AHURI study Social housing diversity and integration (Project 20336). It reviewed the current social housing service delivery provisions for Indigenous households, examined the operation of a variety of these housing service models and how they interact in a selection of geographical contexts that had adopted different mixes of mainstream and specialised service delivery. It also appraised recent developments in international approaches to service delivery to Indigenous households in urban settings. Finally, it developed principles and practices to guide any integration endeavour in the social housing service delivery system for Indigenous households.