Residents in outer-metropolitan areas have lower average income, poorer health and educational outcomes, lower employment participation rates and higher levels of youth disengagement than residents in inner-city areas.

This report aims to provide relevant information to assist policy-makers in addressing accesss to affordable housing in the private rental market.

Market structure and technological innovation theory think that there are close relationship between market structure and technological innovation.

Between 2001 and 2006, Australia’s private rental sector grew by 11 per cent bringing the total number of private renter dwellings to 1.47 million.

This position paper is intended to propose a number of measures to address the multiple and systemic barriers faced by low-income and disadvantaged households in the current private rental market in Victoria.