Private Rental
Older Women in the Private Rental Sector: Unaffordable, Substandard and Insecure Housing
Single older women aged 55 and over are overrepresented amongst the asset poor in Australia. They are also one of the fastest growing groups of homeless people nationally. This status is a product of a number of risks that accrue to women across the life course including gendered differences in pay and superannuation. It is also a product of an unaffordable and insecure private rental system.
2020
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Vulnerable Private Renters: Evidence and Options
Australia’s private rental market has worked well for most people, most of the time.
However, this masks a deterioration in overall housing affordability for vulnerable renters. With vulnerable renters — those who are experiencing social and economic disadvantage — the story is more nuanced.
2019
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Rental Affordability Index 2019
Rental affordability for single pensioners is alarmingly poor. Across
the nation, the single pensioner household is facing Severely
Unaffordable and Extremely Unaffordable rents.
2019
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Delivering equity: A new deal for pensioners who rent
This report is the third in KPMG’s series on workforce discrimination against women. It makes public policy suggestions to support an especially disadvantaged group in which women are over‑represented — those over 50 years of age who are renting privately.
2019
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Exploring the nexus of energy use, ageing, and health and well-being among older Australians
Researchers have argued that our understandings of energy efficiency should be re-defined to move beyond a concept singularly concerned with saving and cutting back on energy use, to one that acknowledges health, well-being and comfort. An ageing population has significant implications for energy policy, programs and advocacy in Australia.
2019
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Older female renters are the 'canary in the coal mine' for housing affordability
There are a growing number of Australians facing rental stress in their retirement. Home ownership rates are falling and mortgage debts are rising for many older Australians. Also, the number of private renters in the 54-64 age group is projected to increase by over 50 per cent to 567,000 in 2031.
And it's getting harder for older renters to find adequate and secure housing.
2019
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A precarious place: older women, housing insecurity & homelessness
For many women, home is a provisional place. This has long been true. Violence, dispossession and poverty are not new.
What is recent is the increase in the number of women over the age of 55 experiencing housing stress, insecurity and homelessness.
2019
Dignity and choice: An inclusive future for our ageing population
Around the world, advanced economies are grappling with the challenges of an ageing population. Despite this, city shaping decisions are often made without sufficient consideration of how cities will change over the coming decades.
2019
Older renters doing it tough – what’s the answer?
Australia has the highest rate of seniors rental poverty in the OECD. 15% of older Australians don’t own or are paying off their own home. Rental costs have increased significantly over the past 10 years. While rents increased 29 per cent over that period, the Commonwealth Rental Allowance increased by only 23 per cent.
2019
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Rental Affordability Snapshot
The Rental Affordability Snapshot highlights the lived experience of looking for housing on a low income. It focuses on those who earn the least– people on government income payments and people earning the minimum wage.
2019
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