This study uses spatial microsimulation techniques to estimate at a small area level the impact of housing costs on spatial differences in financial disadvantage, and the actual or potential effect of housing assistance in reducing disadvantage.

This research proposes to expand current financial disadvantage measures by including a regional housing cost variable. The aim of this project is examine the impact of housing costs and housing assistance on levels of financial disadvantage. This research will provide detailed LGA-level simulated results that will enable a fuller evaluation of the current policy options...

This paper by Ann Harding, Justine McNamara, Robert Tanton, Anne Daly and Mandy Yap, describes results from an innovative use of the 2001 Australian census microdata, focussed on well-being and disadvantage from the child's perspective, to construct a composite index of child social exclusion risk. Abstract

The influence of housing costs on the economic well-being of Australian households at a regional level and the regional impact of housing assistance on financial disadvantage is as yet relatively unexplored.