Australia

Women's Housing Needs in Regional Australia
This report outlines key housing needs and challenges for women through national research undertaken across regional Australia. It offers new knowledge and insights that are relevant for policy and key decision makers across all levels of government, community housing providers, researchers and the private sector.
2020
Themes:
Future housing solutions, Gender, Housing Affordability, Regional Rural & Remote Areas

Home for Good: Improving the Private Rental Market for Older Australians
Once considered a short-term housing option primarily for young adults, the private rental housing sector now accommodates 27 per cent of all households in Australia, with residents renting for much longer periods than in previous decades. With diverse housing types covering a geographical range from urban to rural, the private rental sector can work well for the 6.3 million renters who can affor
Myfan Jordan, Emma Dawson
2020
Themes:
Private Rental

Home for Good: Social Housing for an Ageing Population
In this policy brief, we turn our attention to Australia’s social housing sector.
2020
Themes:
Affordable Housing, Public Housing

'Having to ask for somewhere to live, it's difficult indeed': Single, female, homeless. Australia's shameful crisis
Older women are the fastest-growing cohort of homeless people in Australia today. According to census data, the number of women aged 65 to 74 describing themselves as homeless increased by 51 per cent in the five years to 2016.
Sharon Bradley
2020
Themes:
Ageing Population, Older Women, Poverty & homelessness, Policy, Private Rental, Rental Stress

South Australia praised for supporting the homeless during coronavirus pandemic but long-term solution needed
Nearly 400 people — including rough sleepers — have been housed in hotels and motels across Adelaide since the Covid19 pandemic began.
Ben Nielsen
2020
Themes:
Health, Housing First, Rough Sleeping, COVID-19

Ageing in the Right Place
This Ageing in the Right Place research was undertaken to better understand what the ‘right place’ means for people as they age. As this report discusses, older Australians are not one homogeneous group and they have varying needs. There are, however, some common threads. Three in four Australians aged 85 or older live independently at home, and not in care accommodation.
Global Centre for Modern Ageing
2020
Themes:
Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Aged Care

Longevity by Design - An Industry Wide Charrette to Rethink the Future of Senior Living Design
Longevity by Design is a charrette* that was held in Brisbane on 6 February 2020.
University of Queensland, DMA Engineers
2020
Themes:
Ageing Population, Urban Planning, Ageing-in-Place, Retirement Housing, Lifetime Neighbourhoods

Understanding and reimagining social housing pathways
This study explores the ways households experience pathways into, within and out of the Australian social housing system.
Kathleen Flanagan, Iris Levin, Selina Tually, Meera Varadharajan, Julia Verdouw, Debbie Faulkner, Ariella Meltzer, Anthea Vreugdenhil
2020

Rental Affordability Snapshot 2020
The Rental Affordability Snapshot is designed to highlight the lived experience of looking for housing while on a low income. It focuses on the Australian population who earn the least income – Commonwealth benefit recipients and minimum wage earners. Every year, Anglicare Australia tests if it is possible for people on low incomes to rent a home in the private market.
Anglicare Australia
2020
Themes:
Private Rental, Housing Affordability, Social Housing, Policy

Submission to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety: Aged care program redesign
In this submission, CPSA responds to some of the questions posed in the Royal Commission’s Consultation Paper 1.
Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association of NSW
2020
Themes:
Aged Care

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