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- Title
- Rent assistance: time for a policy review?
- Author(s)
- Hulse, Kath
- Abstract
- In 1997, after several years of heated policy debate, plans to integrate Commonwealth rent assistance (RA) with assistance under the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement (CSHA) were abandoned. Since then, governments have focused on micro-level reforms to RA and CSHA programs separately. This paper argues that it is time to look again at the bigger picture. It places RA in an international context and considers how it was shaped by some of the key features of the Australian income security system. The paper highlights a number of issues about the present RA strategy to stimulate wider debate about current policy settings.
- Publication type
- Working paper
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Institute for Social Research
- Publication year
- 2002
- Keyword(s)
- Housing allowances; Private rental; Housing policy; Rent assistance; Housing assistance
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2002 Kath Hulse. Permission for use generously provided to Swinburne University of Technology by the copyright owner.
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