A Liveability Framework to improve real life impacts for higher density homes

This framework identifies key liveability and accessibility elements.

Solar Potential of Australian Social Housing Stock

Australia’s social and community housing could host as much as 1.8 Gigawatts (GW) of rooftop solar, allowing some of Australia’s most vulnerable energy consumers to benefit from the low cost of solar.

Ending homelessness in Australia: An evidence and policy deep dive

Homelessness is a complex problem. If we are to end it, we need to understand and engage all levers available to us.

Locked-out: generational inequalities of housing tenure and housing type

The housing market is failing to cater for older and younger generations, according to research.

Database of Australian renters

Funded by the Australian Research Council and Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, the project reflects the fact renting has moved from being a transitional proposition to something more permanent.

NAHA Policy Options

NAHA brings together a range of groups representing different perspectives of the housing spectrum.

State of Play Report

A documentation of the experiences of LGBTIQA+ young people within the homelessness system.

Australia needs a social housing future fund

The future fund is an important mechanism to address the ongoing decline of Australia’s social housing stock.

Noongar Housing First Principles

The research was conducted by Sandra Harben at Noongar Mia Mia and were endorsed by the Telethon Kids Institute Ngullar Coorlungar Elder co-researchers.

COVID-19 rental housing and homelessness impacts in Australia

New research by the ACOSS/UNSW Poverty and Inequality Partnership shows renters on low and modest incomes are in the grip of a housing pincer, especially in regional Australia, as surging rents and the Commonwealth’s neglect of social and affordable housing creates acute stress.

Estimating the population at-risk of homelessness in small areas

The estimated rate of risk per 10,000 persons for all Australia ranges between 846.9 per 10,000 for SA3 analysis (8.5% of the total population aged 15 years and over) and 1,165 per 10,000 (11.7%) for analysis derived from HILDA.

Ageing well in public housing

Australia’s ageing housing stock offers a multitude of benefits that will supercharge the emissions reduction.

Barriers in accommodating survivors of modern slavery

Shelter WA partnered with the Australian Red Cross to undertake an in-depth assessment of the Western Australian accommodation options for Red Cross clients on the Support for Trafficked People Program.

Strong economic benefits from energy efficiency retrofits for low-income homes

The Deloitte report provides further evidence of the economic benefits of energy efficiency retrofit programs.

Why Aboriginal homelessness needs a cultural approach

As Australia’s most marginalised group and one of the most poverty-stricken First Nations peoples worldwide, the housing market continues to leave Aboriginal Australia out in the cold (figuratively and literally).

HOME Lived Experience Co-design Toolkit and Framework Launch

The project released two significant pieces of work for the sector, a Lived Experience Engagement Framework, and a Lived Experience Co-Design Toolkit. Both were launched during Homelessness Week 2021.