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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

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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.

An urban planning term designating an urban area for a specific purpose to enable knowledge spillover and foster investment. Australian examples include education, cultural, health and innovation precincts.

Priority allocation is a principle of the social housing allocation process whereby people with extreme housing needs (such as experiencing homelessness or escaping domestic violence) are given quicker access to forms of social housing than might otherwise be the case.

Assistance provided by Commonwealth, state and territory or other welfare agencies to help households access rental housing in the private sector. Assistance can range from programs to educate tenants about how to access and maintain a tenancy, to financial assistance with rental bonds to rent subsidies for defined time periods.

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