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Organisation

Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute

Acronym:
AHURI
Position paper

The integration of homelessness, mental health and drug and alcohol services in Australia


This study aims to increase our understanding of the ways in which homelessness, mental health and drug and alcohol services can be coordinated or integrated to provide services to homeless people, the extent to which system and service integration is occurring in Australia at present and the effectiveness of various integrated service delivery responses.
Report

The great Australian nightmare: mortgage default and repossession


Mortgage default has long term impacts on the financial wellbeing of households including bankruptcy, drawing on superannuation savings, and high levels of debt even after the sale of the house. Better access by borrowers to financial advice and mortgage relief assistance, as well as stricter lending standards and better consideration of illness and hardship by...
Report

Housing and children's development and wellbeing


The aim of this scoping study is to review the existing literature on the connections between housing and childhood development and wellbeing and to investigate the value and feasibility of conducting empirical research in the Australian context. Specifically, the research questions addressed are:
Report

Good practices for managing Australia's public and community housing assets


This project investigates good practices for managing Australia's public and community housing assets. To a large extent the report concerns the identification of existing practices as an attempt to build a picture of asset management in public and community housing across Australia. Authors: Russell Kenley, Maxwell Chiazor, Jon Hall and Christopher Heywood.
Discussion paper

Service directions and issues in social housing for Indigenous households in urban and regional areas


This research is investigating how social housing services are provided to Indigenous clients in urban and regional settings. The primary aim of the study is to better understand how to deliver housing services both to meet housing needs and to contribute to 'closing the gap' on Indigenous disadvantage, in ways that will be consistent with...

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