Indigenous access to mainstream public and community housing

Access by Indigenous people to mainstream public housing has increased by around 75 per cent between June 2000 and June 2004 (up from 6339 to 11 087 households respectively). There is a need to further boost the stock of larger dwellings to reduce overcrowding for Indigenous households in mainstream public housing, and to continue to improve the sustainability of tenancies.Paul Flatau, Lesley Cooper, Natalie McGrath, Donna Edwards, Amanda Hart, Mary Morris, Carol Lacroix, Marc Adam, Dora Marinova, Andrew Beer, Selina Tually and Catherine Trae

Housing Assistance, Social Inclusion and People Living with a Disability

This project sought to understand how housing assistance affects social inclusion for persons with a disability.Selina Tually, Andrew Beer and Pauline McLoughli

Housing assistance, social inclusion and people living with a disability

This project sought to understand how housing assistance affects social inclusion for persons with a disability.Selina Tually, Andrew Beer and Pauline McLoughli

The role of private rental brokerage in housing outcomes for vulnerable Australians: Final report

This Final Report outlines the findings of research investigating the role of private rental brokerage in supporting housing outcomes for vulnerable households in the private rental market. In the last two decades the private rental market has become increasingly important in providing homes for Australians. It has also become increasingly competitive, particularly at the lower-end, where supply has fallen significantly behind demand. Given the lack of affordable ownership options in many local housing markets, and the contraction of public housing, many households with low or moderate means must now look to the private rental sector for their housing over the longer term. Government policy has encouraged renters who would otherwise be eligible for social housing to move into the private rental market. This tenure shift has been supported by the provision of several assistance measures for private renters. Those best known and understood are Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA) and state and territory Private Rent Assistance (PRA) programs, which provide bond and rent loans to eligible people. Two other elements also exist alongside the best known private rental supports: the National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) (although as the planned further expansion of this scheme was halted by the newly elected Abbott Government in budget 2014/15 thereby limiting its future potential as a supply-side private rental assistance measure) and private rental brokerage. This report is concerned specifically with private rental brokerage; a previously underresearched measure among private rental supports nationally. Conceptually, we describe private rental brokerage as the 'third pillar' of supports nationally, sitting alongside the much larger CRA measure and, as the research findings reported here note, reinforcing the reach and impact of PRA.Selina Tually, Michele Slatter, Debbie Faulkner and Susan Oakley for the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute at The University of Adelaid

Understanding the experience of social housing pathways

This report is part of an Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) Inquiry examining how social housing pathways could be reimagined to provide more effective assistance for low-income households in Australia. This research sets out to understand the ways in which individuals and households experience pathways into, within and out of the Australian social housing system

The drivers of supply and demand in Australia's rural and regional centres

This Paper has reviewed both the literature on regional housing markets and the current and emerging policy environment. It has shown that there have been significant developments in housing policy over the previous two years, with a number of major policy initiatives and substantial public sector investment in housing. The Positioning Paper has suggested that not all new programs and policies are equally accessible to metropolitan and non-metropolitan Australia alike.Selina Tually, Andrew Beer, Steve Rowley, Fiona Haslam McKenzie and Christina Birdsall-Jones for the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institut

The drivers of supply and demand in Australia's rural and regional centres

This Paper has reviewed both the literature on regional housing markets and the current and emerging policy environment. It has shown that there have been significant developments in housing policy over the previous two years, with a number of major policy initiatives and substantial public sector investment in housing. The Positioning Paper has suggested that not all new programs and policies are equally accessible to metropolitan and non-metropolitan Australia alike.Selina Tually, Andrew Beer, Steve Rowley, Fiona Haslam McKenzie and Christina Birdsall-Jones for the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institut

The drivers of supply and demand in Australia's rural and regional centres

This Paper has reviewed both the literature on regional housing markets and the current and emerging policy environment. It has shown that there have been significant developments in housing policy over the previous two years, with a number of major policy initiatives and substantial public sector investment in housing. The Positioning Paper has suggested that not all new programs and policies are equally accessible to metropolitan and non-metropolitan Australia alike.Andrew Beer, Selina Tually, Steven Rowley, Fiona Haslam McKenzie, Julia Schlapp, Christina Birdsall Jones and Vanessa Corunn

Indigenous access to mainstream public and community housing

Access by Indigenous people to mainstream public housing has increased by around 75 per cent between June 2000 and June 2004 (up from 6339 to 11 087 households respectively). There is a need to further boost the stock of larger dwellings to reduce overcrowding for Indigenous households in mainstream public housing, and to continue to improve the sustainability of tenancies.Paul Flatau, Natalie McGrath, Selina Tually, Lesley Cooper, Mary Morris, Marc Adam, Dora Marinova and Andrew Bee

The State of play in housing markets in rural and regional Australia

Selina Tuallyhttp://rsa.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13673882.2011.969038