Housing reforms in remote Indigenous communities have resulted in a variety of tenancy management arrangements involving state, community and private housing sectors. This project identified different models of tenancy management, considered their housing outcomes, and shared the policy and practice lessons across jurisdictions.

This project examined older people’s homelessness in Australia, with a particular focus on the experience of becoming homeless for the first time in later life. This research project drew on individual client case records and interviews with professionals working in the Assistance with Care and Housing for the Aged (ACHA) program. The program is designed...

This research project will provide policy-makers and housing practitioners with new knowledge into the future housing and support needs of people with dementia. It will advance strategies to support tenants, extend their capacity to age-in-place and improve service coordination in this area.

This essay evaluates the new statistical definition of homelessness adopted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for the purposes of counting the homeless population. The ABS defines a person as homeless if they lack any one of three elements: adequacy of the dwelling; security of tenure in the dwelling; and control of, and access...

The recently released ‘My City: the people’s verdict 2013’ survey from the Property Council of Australia reveals that only 36 per cent of people think Australian cities have affordable housing—the worst performing aspect of the 17 measurement categories of our cities that were assessed. The survey results, which measured the ‘liveability’ of Australia's capital cities...