Housing
Alternative labels
Residential building
Dwellings
Housing strategy
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Skating on thin ice – difficulties faced by people living with mental illness accessing and maintaining social housing
More work needs to be done to support people living with mental illness to sustain social housing tenancies, argues this report. The paper explores the difficulties people with mental illness face accessing and maintaining social housing. The difficulties it identifies include:
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Housing conditionality, Indigenous lifeworlds and policy outcomes: towards a model for culturally responsive housing provision
This study examined the question of to what extent Indigenous housing access and tenancy sustainment are influenced by the alignment between different forms of conditionality and Indigenous cultural norms, including family and community obligations. Executive summary Purpose of the study
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Census of population and housing: submissions report, 2016
This report presents a summary of the key themes emerging from the public submissions received by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on the proposed content and procedures for the 2016 Census of Population and Housing. Public consultation on the content for the 2016 Census of Population and Housing opened on 6 November 2012 and closed...
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Understanding and addressing community opposition to affordable housing development
This research investigated the causal roots of local opposition to affordable housing projects in Australia. It shows that planning concerns (traffic and built form) can mask prejudice against low-income residents. However community opposition can be exacerbated by dismissive attitudes by government. Developers and government both have roles to better explain to the public what affordable...
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Census of population and housing: understanding the increase in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander counts, 2006-2011
This publication examines the issues underlying the change in Census counts for people identifying as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin from the 2006 Census to 2011 Census and attempts to quantify elements of this increase. It provides an analysis of key demographic factors and selected characteristics that highlight the scope and implications of the...