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A dwelling is a structure which is intended to have people live in it. Private dwellings can take a number of very different types or forms, such as being a detached house, apartment, unit or town house, and can also include a caravan, houseboat, tent, a residence attached to an office or rooms above a shop. Non-private dwellings include places that provide communal accommodation such as aged care and retirement villages with supported nursing care.

Short-term accommodation for people experiencing homelessness or leaving insecure housing, such as a person fleeing DFV.

See homelessness

Equivalised household income is an income measure that is adjusted to account for the household’s number of people and composition. Equivalised household income can indicate the economic resources available to members of the household.

The official measure of Australia's population based on the concept of usual residence. It refers to all people, regardless of nationality or citizenship, who usually live in Australia, including usual residents who are overseas for less than 12 months. It excludes foreign diplomatic personnel and their families, and overseas visitors who are in Australia for less than 12 months.

See income support

See dwelling type

An integrated service model that provides transitional housing for young people (primarily under the age of 24) with support, emphasising education, employment and training.

The difference between what it costs to supply, build, maintain and manage social housing and the amount low-income tenants can afford to pay for that housing. The provision of social housing is dependent on some form of subsidy (usually from government) to cover the funding gap.

A social and economic process resulting in the demographic composition of an established urban place changing. Often associated with urban renewal in formerly disadvantaged urban areas, gentrification involves the displacement of lower income residents by higher income groups.

A statistical geospatial concept designed by the ABS to provide a consistent boundary for each of Australia’s eight state and territory capital cities.