Crisis Accommodation In Australia: Now And For The Future
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AHURI
Summary
This research provides a review of the grey and academic literature on crisis accommodation models and practices, as well as drawing together perspectives on crisis accommodation from people with living and lived experiences of crisis accommodation, frontline staff and key stakeholders in each Australian state and territory. It also includes analysis of administrative data from a large SHS in Melbourne, Victoria and the South Australian Housing Authority (SAHA).
A Continued Shift? Learnings From The Public Health Response To COVID-19 Homelessness
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AHURI
Summary
This research project aims to explore what public health, housing, and homelessness agencies have learned about policy and practice responses to homelessness through their engagement in the implementation of COVID-19 measures for homeless populations and service settings. The project will critically analyse the barriers/enablers of COVID-19 measures in national and international jurisdictions and empirically investigate the engagement between Australian public health agencies and homelessness se ....This research project aims to explore what public health, housing, and homelessness agencies have learned about policy and practice responses to homelessness through their engagement in the implementation of COVID-19 measures for homeless populations and service settings. The project will critically analyse the barriers/enablers of COVID-19 measures in national and international jurisdictions and empirically investigate the engagement between Australian public health agencies and homelessness services that was initially forced through the COVID-19 pandemic but subsequently gave rise to greater collaborationRead moreRead less
Poverty And Australian Housing: Findings From An AHURI Investigative Panel
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AHURI
Summary
This Investigative Panel was guided by three principal research questions:
1. What housing, planning, taxation and social security policies significantly affect housing-related poverty?
a. What are the risks and potential benefits of changing policy settings?
b. What lessons can be learnt from international policy and practice?
2. How do Australian housing markets and institutions (e.g. tenure regulations, costs, location, built form, capacity of affordable housing sector) intersect with ind ....This Investigative Panel was guided by three principal research questions:
1. What housing, planning, taxation and social security policies significantly affect housing-related poverty?
a. What are the risks and potential benefits of changing policy settings?
b. What lessons can be learnt from international policy and practice?
2. How do Australian housing markets and institutions (e.g. tenure regulations, costs, location, built form, capacity of affordable housing sector) intersect with individual capabilities (e.g. income support, labour market status, household type, race, gender) to produce and reproduce particular experiences of poverty?
3. What programs and policies are already operating which address the intersections of housing and poverty? What are the opportunities to extend and add to these?
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The Changing Geography Of Homelessness In Australia And Its Structural Drivers
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AHURI
Summary
Investigates the changing geography of homelessness in Australia from 2001 to 2021 and the role of structural factors, such as poverty and supplies of affordable rental housing, in shaping this geography.