This research explores the different crisis accommodation models operating in Australia, as well as the different approaches to case management and key principles for ensuring a supportive built environment. It documents what works and what doesn’t work, together with the needs and outcomes for those in crisis accommodation.

This research provides a geographic and demographic picture of low-income renters in Australia aged 50+ as the basis to finding acceptable solutions to the challenges of population ageing and housing needs in the 21st Century.

The authors of this report assert that a lack of policy reform and action in Australia has resulted in increasing numbers of older people facing their later years living in precarious housing situations.

This report analyses the economic constraints on people’s ability to buy a home in Australia over the four decades from the early 1980s. It also examines how home ownership has evolved over time; considers demand subsidies provided to first homebuyers; and examines the support from other family for first homebuyers.

The gravity and urgency of the climate emergency and the housing affordability crisis together warrant a significant, coordinated national effort to recalibrate the housing industry and ensure its sustainable future. This report informs a strategy to facilitate circular economy housing - from construction, through operation to demolition - and the incentives and regulatory levers needed...