Terry Burke, Caroline Neske and Liss Ralston surveyed two groups of low-income households: those who had applied for public housing and those who had not, to examine the characteristics of these two groups and the reasons for their housing decisions.

In the final report of a project which surveyed households entering social housing and rent-assisted private renters, Terry Burke, Caroline Neske and Liss Ralston discuss client aspirations and needs in relation to the two major forms of housing assistance provided by government in Australia.

In Australia most social housing is provided by state government agencies with a small community housing sector, and the total social housing sector accounts for 5 per cent of stock. Since the 1990s governments have introduced 'managerialist' reforms to the sector in order to increase accountability and flexibility. In this paper Terry Burke looks at...

Terry Burke provides a conceptual framework for understanding why and how indigenous cultures require culturally specific management practices in social housing, illustrating these issues with reference to Indigenous housing in Australia. The framework is adapted from the field of intercultural management and is used to reveal how social housing provision and management for Australia's indigenous...

This paper is based on a near completed Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) project which is designed to document the state of practice in Australian social housing allocations systems and to provide ideas and data from Australia and overseas which may help facilitate reform. In this paper Terry Burke and Kath Hulse outline...