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Title

Improving access to social housing: ideas for reform

Author(s)

Hulse, Kath;  Neske, Caroline;  Burke, Terry

Abstract

For 60 years, the public housing sector has had a dominant role in the Australian social housing system, and most households wanting to access the system have had a single point of entry via the public housing agency in each state or territory. Each has its own application and allocations policies and practices to determine who gets access to its housing, in what order, and what type and size of housing is offered to households. Whilst nine in ten social housing dwellings are still owned and managed by state or territory public housing agencies, the number is slowly declining, and it appears that any growth in the social housing system will not be in public housing but rather in community housing, including new models of 'affordable housing', and accommodation for Indigenous people (Milligan et al. 2004). As social housing in Australia moves towards a more explicit multi-provider system, issues and challenges arise regarding improving access, including information and choice for households, efficiency for providers and the overall development of the social housing system.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Institute for Social Research

Source

AHURI Positioning Paper, No. 88 (May 2006)

Publication year

2006

Keyword(s)

Public housing;  Accessibility;  Community housing;  Rental accommodation;  Registration;  Supply and demand;  Welfare policy;  Reviews of research;  Australia overseas comparisons;  Interstate comparisons;  Social housing

Publisher

Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute

ISSN

1834-9250 (series)

ISBN

1921201061 (positioning paper)

Publisher URL

http://www.ahuri.edu.au/publications/download/50297_pp

Copyright

Copyright © 2006. Positioning paper reproduced here with the kind permission of the publisher (AHURI).

Research Projects

Improving access to social housing: common housing registers and other potential reforms, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) grant number 50297

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