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 final report aims to quantify the nature and extent of changes in the decade 1991-2001 within nonmetropolitan housing markets in Australia and, integral to achieving this first goal, to construct the first national non-metropolitan housing market database to hold empirical information on population, housing and labour markets for the census years 1991, 1996 and...

This research project examines how the low rent end of the Australian private rental market fared between the 1996 and 2001 Censuses. During this period a number of significant changes affected the private rental housing market. Household incomes improved. Nationally, the growth in the number of households continued to outpace population growth as more and...

Judith Yates, Maryann Wulff and Margaret Reynolds analyse 2001 census data to determine the mismatch (or otherwise) between the supply of and the need for low rent housing.