This report identifies emerging policy and management issues for public housing providers and for Commonwealth and state/territory governments as older people in public housing seek to age in place.At the 2001 Census, 102,735 older persons (aged 65 years or more) were housed in 87,940 public housing dwellings; nearly all (82 percent) were living alone or...

This paper focuses on the actual experience of housing affordability, revealing how deeply the problem cuts into the financial and general wellbeing of renters.

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.