This research investigated the funding and delivery of programs to reduce homelessness in Australia, providing the first comprehensive examination of the funding of Specialist Homelessness Services and other services assisting those experiencing homelessness. It found current levels of funding...

The existing Australian homelessness service system has known strengths but its effectiveness is constrained for different population groups who experience a range of other social, economic, health and justice issues. This research develops strategies to redesign the homelessness service system...

This research identifies measures that could reduce youth homelessness and lead to improved outcomes for young people who experience homelessness. The findings are based on a community-level analysis of special homelessness services (SHS) data and sites of innovation in three states: South...

Indigenous Australians are 14 times more likely to become homeless than other Australians, and their homelessness situations are likely to be more severe. This research examined how the changing mix of government and non-government, direct and indirect funding influences the provision of...

This study identified five Australian housing markets that could be made more efficient using online technology to match highly specific ‘buyers' and ‘sellers'. The five markets considered are: swaps in public housing; disability accessible housing; low-cost private rental housing brokerage;...

This research examines social housing asset management (AM) in Australia and develops a best practice framework that outlines AM processes and criteria for making decisions; is suitable to the unique aspects of social housing; is flexible enough to be used by different types of social housing...

Classic studies of medicalisation point to the 'rise of the experts' as disempowering patients and refusing to acknowledge their expertise in their own lives. More recently, medicalisation scholarship has taken a different turn, arguing that patient choice is both a responsibility imposed on...

Occasional Paper No. 35 consists of two reports on post-diagnosis support for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The first report, Post-diagnosis support for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, their families and carers, by kylie valentine and Marianne Rajkovic, with Brooke Dinning and...

This report describes the supports and services available to formal and informal out-of-home carers, including existing qualitative evidence from carers, in order to: analyse current gaps in support; build an understanding of carers’ needs and priorities; understand the barriers to undertaking...