In this report Lesley Cooper and Mary Morris introduce a research project which will investigate residential dislocation and housing instability by examining pathways taken by indigenous women and children between homelessness and sustainable tenancy.

Commonwealth rent assistance (CRA) entitlement rules - rent thresholds and maximum levels of assistance - are standard across the country, despite the evident variations in regional rent levels. This situation has prompted calls for a regional dimension to be added to CRA payments. How might possible variants of CRA provide a greater responsiveness to regional...

This Positioning Paper outlines a research program examining the emergence of tenancy databases - their uses and impacts - in the context of key issues of tenure management in the Australian private rental sector. Included in this paper is an outline of the range and scope of tenancy databases currently operating in Australia, and the...

This paper outlines a research project investigating programs for older homeless people in all states in Australia. The wide coverage will enable the research team to provide a comparative analysis of the housing of homeless older people nationally in both urban and regional areas - including programs catering for indigenous people.

In this report, the authors discuss their longitudinal study of ex-prisoners in NSW and Victoria, examining the importance of housing and accommodation to social re-integration and re-offending.