Private Rental

Unsuitable, insecure and substandard homes: The barriers faced by older private renters
Growing numbers of older people in the UK are living in private rented accommodation.
Sue Arthur, Amelia Christie, Ray Mitchell
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Private Rental, Policy

Presentations from The National Homelessness Conference, Melbourne 2018
The 2018 National Homelessness Conference, presenting the theme ‘Ending homelessness together’, delivered a wealth of evidence and information on ways to understand, reduce and alleviate homelessness. Over 800 delegates and more than 80 speakers participated across two very full days, exploring the underlying drivers of homelessness and the differing strategies on how best to overcome it.
Celia Adams, Sherri Bruinhout, Paula Coghill, Kate Colvin, Debbie Faulkner, Jeff Fiedler, Andrew Hollows, Sally Langton, Penny Leemhuis, Jeanette Large, Olav Nielsenn, Kate Paterson, Nicholas Pleace
2018
Themes:
Crisis Housing, Gender, Older Women, Indigenous Housing, Private Rental, Older Men, Ageing-in-Place, Rough Sleeping, Housing First, Future housing solutions

A longer lease on life: issues for older renters
With a surplus of $3.9 billion for 2016-17, the 2018 NSW State Budget had its winners and losers. The latter include seniors and renters. This blog examine some of the issues confronting older renters.
Tenants' Union of NSW
2018
Themes:
Private Rental, Policy, Older Women

Seventy and homeless for the first time: the rise of older women's homelessness
While the stereotypical face of poverty is a older man – a lifetime down on his luck, the fastest growing demographic of people experiencing homelessness is single women over the age of 55. While it is clear that women are victim to lifelong structural settings that have undermined their financial security – the state of the housing market is what is pushing so many women from housing stress into
Sharna de Lacy
2018
Themes:
Older Women, Private Rental, Policy, Housing Affordability, Single people & housing stress

Poverty in Australia 2018
This is the ACOSS/UNSW Poverty and Inequality Partnership Report No. 2. The analysis of poverty in this report begins with the poverty line used in most international poverty research: 50% of median household disposable income. Housing tenure has a major impact on poverty.
Peter Davidson, Peter Saunders, Bruce Bradbury, Melissa Wong
2018
Themes:
Poverty & homelessness, Policy, Private Rental, Ageing Population

Disrupted: The consumer experience of renting in Australia
Disrupted – the second report commissioned by CHOICE, National Shelter, and The National Association of Tenant Organisations (NATO) – delves into the issues facing Australians who rent.
Choice, National Shelter, The National Association of Tenant Organisations
2018
Themes:
Private Rental

Will you be renting in retirement?
The concept of retirees as mortgage-free homeowners is a problem for our current welfare system. Thanks to poor housing affordability, people who do own property are generally buying later in life and paying off their mortgage for longer.
Money and Life Team
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Private Rental, Health, Retirement, Policy

Grey renting: the rising tide of older private tenants
New statistics from the most recent edition of the UK government’s English Housing Survey suggest a big tide of older private tenants is fast approaching. If it’s realised, this shift in the way older people are housed could see increasing numbers of pensioners paying unaffordable levels of rent, forced to move against their will or made homeless.
John Bibby
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Private Rental, Housing Affordability

The Private Rental Sector in Australia: Public perceptions of quality and affordability
This report examines the national state of the private rental system in Australia. While growing in size, it has also changed in terms of composition.
Stephen Rowley, Amity James
2018
Themes:
Private Rental

Rental warning: Falling home ownership rates set to bite retirees
Older Australians are falling off the housing ladder and face spending their retirement as renters, with the situation expected to worsen for coming generations. Senior Australians in the private rental market are “at much greater risk of financial stress than home owners, or those in public housing”, according to the Grattan Institute’s recently launched Grattan Retirement Incomes Model. Older
Isabelle Lane
2018
Themes:
Housing Affordability, Private Rental, Rental Stress, Retirement, Policy

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