Social isolation
Article
Policy shift or program drift? Implementing Housing First in Australia
This essay critically analysed how the Housing First approach could be successfully applied to the system of supported housing in Australia.
Briefing paper
Asylum seekers: an update
This paper outlines developments in national policies relating to asylum seekers between 2008 and 2011, thereby updating a paper published by the NSW Parliamentary Library Research Service in 2008.
Report
A new social equity agenda for sustainable transportation
This Canadian report discusses the importance of incorporating social equity and environmental justice objectives into transport policy and planning analysis. It recommends a more systematic and comprehensive framework for social equity impact analysis. Social equity refers to the equitable distribution of impacts (benefits, disadvantages and costs). Environmental justice is a subset of social equity analysis...
Report
Developing sustainable affordable housing: a project level analysis
This is a study about sustainability outcomes of new affordable housing projects. Findings include that affordability for tenants generally lay on a range between that found in public housing and the private market.
Report
Award reliance and differences in earnings by gender
The report uses data from both the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Employee Earnings and Hours (EEH) survey and the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, both of which have a measure of award reliance. Part 1 of the report examines the differences in earnings by gender in the 2010 EEH survey. Differences...