Gavin Wood and Rachel Ong report on the first stage of a project examining how housing assistance programs impact on economic participation outcomes once we control for the mediating effects that intermediary variables such as health and neighbourhood effects can have on economic participation outcomes.

This report shows that although each state and territory rental support program has similar aims, their operation varies considerably.

Housing assistance (HA) interventions not only aim to meet housing needs, they also contribute to higher level outcomes, such as improved social and economic wellbeing for individuals, families and communities.

In this report, Kath Hulse and Bill Randolph examine the role of housing and housing assistance in contributing to disincentives to taking up paid work or working more hours.

The federal government's 'welfare reform' agenda recognises the potential importance of housing in the overall structure of welfare and tax reform but has not addressed this issue in any depth. In this paper Kath Hulse and Bill Randolph attempt to fill a part of this research gap. It reports on the findings of research into...