This synthesis report provides evidence about current access arrangements to homelessness services, the complex and multiple access barriers faced by people experiencing homelessness, and an overview of the different approaches, models and mechanisms used in Australia and internationally to improve access. Despite the limitations of the existing evidence base, findings about access to services and...

This report is the final output of a synthesis examining the nature of locational disadvantage and ways in which governments can intervene to improve the lives of disadvantaged residents in areas of concentrated poverty and disadvantage. The report outlines the synthesis methodology used, then explores the complex and contested concept of locational disadvantage. This is...

Case management has been central to homelessness assistance practice in Australia since at least the early 1990s, when it was adopted as a key strategy to enhance the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP). The approach was formally documented in 1997 with the release of the SAAP Case Management Resource Kit. This research synthesis project was...