Tenure diversification strategies that involve the transfer of public housing to alternative forms of ownership or management have been an important part of the operational management plans of a number of state housing authorities in Australia since at least the early 1990s. In this research project Bill Randolph and Martin Wood will undertake the first...

Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA) provides supplementary income to about one million income support recipients in the private rental market in recognition of the additional costs of private rental housing. The primary aim of the research reported in this final report is to assess the targeting performance of CRA at a regional level. The premise is...

This paper is based on a near completed Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) project which is designed to document the state of practice in Australian social housing allocations systems and to provide ideas and data from Australia and overseas which may help facilitate reform. In this paper Terry Burke and Kath Hulse outline...

A selection of papers from last month's conference, jointly sponsored by the South Australian Department of Human Services, is available on the conference website.

Paul Memmott, Stephen Long, Catherine Chambers and Frederick Spring analyse categories of Indigenous homeless people from the literature, profiling a number of good practice responses to such needs categories in the field. This research builds on an earlier stage of work funded by the federal government that compiles the literature on strategic responses to Indigenous...