Using ABS Household Expenditure Survey statistics, this study finds, among other things, that real housing costs in Australia increased substantially (32.9 per cent) over the period 1975-99. Purchasers experienced the biggest cost increase (66.2 per cent), followed by private tenants (24 per cent) and outright owners (21 per cent), with public tenants having the smallest...

Prepared in collaboration with Macquarie Bank, this report aims to identify an appropriate financial product and vehicle for raising retail private finance for investment in community housing.

In Sole Parents, Social Wellbeing and Housing Assistance Terry Burke and Kath Hulse compare the attitudes and circumstances of two sets of sole parent households: those in public housing and those receiving government rental assistance in the private market. The survey data showed that housing was less affordable for the latter group, despite their higher...

For young people, the transition to independent living is one of the most important - and probably exciting, difficult and emotionally charged - decisions they will ever make. For most, it means severing their links with parents, home and much that they have been familiar with all their lives. For a minority, it may represent...

For young people, the transition to independent living is one of the most important – and probably exciting, difficult and emotionally charged – decisions they will ever make. For most, it means severing their links with parents, home and much that they have been familiar with all their lives. For a minority, it may represent...