Housing assistance (HA) interventions not only aim to meet housing needs, they also contribute to higher level outcomes, such as improved social and economic wellbeing for individuals, families and communities.

Commonwealth and state governments spend very large amounts of money on housing assistance. The housing or shelter impacts of these interventions are reasonably well understood. But, given the capacity of housing to affect many other elements of people's lives, what are the non-shelter outcomes of housing assistance? Using survey data, Peter Phibbs and Peter Young...

Robert Samuels, Bruce Judd, Bette O'Brien and Jack Barton examine the problem of crime and harassment experienced by residents in areas with large concentrations of public housing, and the intervention programs developed by state governments. At question is the extent to which community renewal, policing and other crime reduction strategies are effective. This report evaluates...

Tony Melhuish, Anthony King and Elizabeth Taylor argue that the Commonwealth rent assistance rules should be modified to recognise regional variations in the rental market and in the impact of the program. Changes to the rules may result in improved regional performance, without any major increases in the overall budget allocation to the program.

In this positioning paper Paul Memmott, Stephen Long, Martin Bell, John Taylor and Dominic Brown outline a research project which aims to carry out a combination of statistical and field-based research on the residential mobility of Indigenous people in selected discrete and rural communities in order to quantify and contextualize their mobility patterns.