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.

Australian state and federal governments spend a large amount of money on providing housing assistance to Australian households. This housing assistance takes a variety of forms. It includes the provision of public housing, subsidies for low-income renters in the private sector and various forms of assistance for homeownership. An improved housing outcome for the recipient...

This study will provide a comprehensive assessment of the distributional impact of the major forms of broadly defined housing assistance provided by the Commonwealth and will provide an assessment of the extent to which the changes in the different forms of housing assistance have contributed to improved targeting of that assistance. This report's appendices (0)...

This final report of an AHURI research project addresses questions raised on the future environment for housing policy, labour markets, housing markets and the shifting metropolitan balance. It is specifically concerned with the spatial implications of socio-demographic and economic change on the two major housing tenures: viz, home ownership and private rental.