This project employs AHURI's housing market microsimulation model (AHURI-3M) to undertake modelling on initiatives to improve the supply of affordable housing. The project is carried out in two stages. During the first stage, the authors address two key policy questions. First, what are the internal rates of return received by landlords in the current policy...

This report identifies emerging policy and management issues for public housing providers and for Commonwealth and state/territory governments as older people in public housing seek to age in place.At the 2001 Census, 102,735 older persons (aged 65 years or more) were housed in 87,940 public housing dwellings; nearly all (82 percent) were living alone or...

This report provides an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between public housing participation and employment outcomes in Australia.

The receipt of more than $75 per week in child support assisted resident parents living apart to secure better quality housing for themselves and their children. For non-resident parents living apart, the payment of child support appeared to have no measurable effect upon the standard of their housing. The ongoing obligation to pay child support...

This project focuses on the potential that shared equity has to provide a solution to affordability problems and the type and level of government assistance that will be needed to ensure specific objectives can be met. The challenging task of addressing the varied requirements, preferences and barriers faced by potential customers, lenders and investors -...