Housing

This project addressed the question: How do the drivers of supply and demand for housing in regional and rural centres affect the supply of affordable housing? The project, used [i.e. using] case studies across Australia, assisted governments in forming appropriate policies for the provision of affordable housing in non-metropolitan&nbs ....

The author argues that as a result of 30 years of separatist policies, Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in remote communities, fringe settlements and capital-city ghettos, as compared to those integrated into the mainstream economy in capital cities and towns in regional Australia, have been denied the economic opp ....

Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA) provides supplementary income to about one million income support recipients in the private rental market in recognition of the additional costs of private rental housing. The primary aim of the research reported in this final report is to assess the targeting performance of CRA at a regional leve ....

The influence of housing costs on the economic well-being of Australian households at a regional level and the regional impact of housing assistance on financial disadvantage is as yet relatively unexplored. The paper describes a research project, placed within the broad conceptual framework of a deprivation approach to poverty and ....

This report contains a policy-orientated synthesis of the disparate contributions to remote Indigenous housing from the design, policy and public health literatures as grounded and tested in fieldwork in three sample communities in different parts of Australia. This integration of primary and secondary research is used to develop a ....

Shelter NSW and Yfoundations have released a report by Paul van Reyk on the impact of housing on the access of young students from regional New South Wales to universities in Sydney. Under the radar (Shelter Brief 51) found that rural students in Sydney were a population for whom the housing affordability and tenancy issues commonly experienced b ....

RDA Hunter maintains that a comprehensive and all–encompassing view of this integrated region and its connectivity to surrounding regions, including Sydney, is the key to ensuring that sustainable and productive growth occurs across the Hunter to the benefit of the state, the nation and local communities. The Hunter is  ....

This thesis analyzes the impact of the political decision to broaden the scope of the Government of Canada's 3-year National Homelessness Initiative (Human Resource Development Canada, NHI, 2002) from an urban focus to one that includes smaller communities. This change provided the opportunity to study the phenomenon of homelessness and ....

Youth homelessness is widely acknowledged as an area of concern and it has received reasonable focus and research attention in metropolitan areas. However, the particular concerns and needs of rural youth have not generally been investigated or documented. This is despite many rural young people experiencing problems relating to th ....

The Foyer model provides accommodation, employment training and support for young people at risk of homelessness. This paper considers the effectiveness of the Foyer model, which is being implemented in regional NSW, and discusses issues of rural youth homelessness. Report Locationhttp://www.be.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/upload/p ....

Mount Gambier is South Australia's largest regional city with a population approaching 30,000 people. Located approximately 400 km from Adelaide in the South Eastern part of South Australia, the city is the major commercial hub for several primary industries including logging and wood-chipping, market-gardening and dairy production ....