Housing assistance (HA) interventions not only aim to meet housing needs they also aim to contribute to improved social and economic outcomes for individuals, families and communities.

It identifies the impediments Indigenous people face in accessing mainstream public and long-term community housing assistance programs and sustaining tenancies in public and community housing. And it discusses policy actions and measures that may help to overcome these obstacles. Authors: Paul Flatau, Lesley Cooper, Mary Morris, Andrew Beer, Natalie McGrath, Marc Adam and Dora Marinova

Paul Flatau, Patric Hendershott, Richard Watson and Gavin Wood report on the development of an integrated model of the housing system that incorporates the broad range of drivers that influence the housing market, including the role of aspirations, household formation, economic incentives and labour market interactions.

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...

Most housing policies directly or indirectly impact on the price that households pay for housing. This research has the aim of constructing a microsimulation model that is capable of measuring the impact of Commonwealth and State government housing programs on the prices that households pay for housing, and the subsidies they receive.