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National Disability Insurance Scheme – a Commonwealth Government scheme that provides support funding to eligible people with disability to improve their quality of life. It can include help with household tasks and home modification design to allow the participant to maintain and remain in their home environment.

The process whereby a property investor can deduct their property expenses (e.g. the interest on the loan required to buy the property, depreciation costs, land taxes, rates and maintenance costs) from both the income they receive as rent from the property and from other sources of income (e.g. their salary or other non-housing investments), thereby reducing their overall tax liability. The actual purchase cost of the property is not claimable for negative gearing purposes.

Newstart was a Commonwealth Government income support payment for people looking for work or who were unable to do usual work or study while they recovered from a temporary sickness or injury. On 20 March 2020 Newstart was replaced with JobSeeker Payment.

See income support

Non-shelter outcomes (sometimes also non-housing outcomes) refers to householders’ physical and mental health, education, labour market outcomes, crime and safety, community participation and social cohesion, locational dis/advantage and child development. Non-shelter outcomes for households may be improved by receiving housing assistance and other welfare benefits.

A temporary, medium or long-term living arrangement for children and young people who cannot live in their family home. Housing can be in:

• Foster care: a child is taken into care by a foster carer who has been trained and approved to look after children.
• Kinship care: a child is taken into care by a relative or family friend allowing them to remain within the family or local network.
• Permanent care: a child is placed into the care of a permanent carer (including foster or kinship carers where it is intended the child will remain in their care until age 18 or beyond) prior to a Permanent Care Order being made by the Children's Court.
• Residential care: a young person is placed into a home staffed by carers.

See crowding

See tenure types

Owner-purchaser (or purchaser-owner) includes homeowners who are still paying for their home through a mortgage and those homeowners who own their home outright.

A professional planning practice that aims to make urban spaces more liveable for local people by taking into account inputs of the people who will be using the public space most. Placemaking often occurs as part of an urban renewal process focusing on urban design and involving community consultation.

‘Precarious housing’ is defined as housing that concurrently exhibits two or more of the characteristics identified below: unaffordable, unsuitable and insecure.