RESEARCH: Kids escaping family violence can be vulnerable to intimate partner abuse.

Kids escaping family violence can be vulnerable to intimate partner abuse. We must break the vicious cycle

Nearly 13,000 Australian children aged 10 to 17 sought help alone from specialist homeless services last year. Many of these young people will have escaped family violence and then been endangered by abusive partners .

Our respective research tackles this emotionally tough terrain head on, speaking with teens experiencing intimate partner violence and children under 18 who experience homelessness and are not accompanied by a parent or guardian.

The Australian Child Maltreatment Study reported it[s] findings this year from surveying 8,500 Australians aged 16 and over. It found 28.5% had experienced sexual abuse, 30.9% emotional abuse, 32.0% physical abuse and 39.6% exposure to domestic violence.

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3 Significant Barriers to Affordable Housing Production – Conduit Street

This article is part of MACo’s Policy Deep Dive series, where expert policy analysts explore and explain the top county policy issues of the day.

Unlike most other subject areas, housing overlaps with almost everything. While often seen as a local issue, many regional and national trends impact housing markets and production. Considering the national conversation around housing, stakeholders must have a deeper understanding of what is constraining supply. While the items below do not represent the whole picture, their impact cannot be understated.

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Brisbane planning laws keeping poor out of city’s most desirable suburbs, research suggests

Brisbane city council’s traditional building character overlay prohibits demolition of any dwelling built before 1947 in a bid to ‘maintain traditional character’. Planning laws that preserve most prewar Brisbane homes are “tantamount to exclusionary zoning”, keeping poor people out of rich suburbs without substantially preserving the city’s built heritage, according to new research.

The lead author, Rachel Gallagher, said the city’s character-zoning laws were justified as a means to preserve heritage – but in reality prevent higher-density housing being built in some of the city’s most desirable suburbs such as Chelmer, Morningside, Ashgrove, Paddington, Bulimba and Bardon.

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Older Adults’ Pathways Into – and Out of – Housing Insecurity and Homelessness

Senior adult man sits alone at old wooden bench in park looking forward, at Hiroshima Peace Memorial park, Japan.

Adults 65 and older are the fastest-growing age group of people who experience homelessness, and those 50 and over who are experiencing homelessness often exhibit conditions associated with much older age such as memory loss, falls, and functional impairment.

In this talk, Samara Scheckler, a research associate at the Center, will discuss new research on housing insecurity and homelessness for older adults in Boston.

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Calls for solutions from National Housing Conference as delegates debate the housing crisis

An aerial photograph of houses on a suburban street

More than 1,300 representatives will attend a three-day National Housing Conference in Brisbane starting on Tuesday, to address difficulties and find solutions for the future of housing in Australia.

It comes as more than 25,000 people wait for social housing in the Sunshine State, while around 500 social housing properties have been built each year since 2017, according to Queensland Department of Housing data.

Click here to view original article at abc.net.au

‘Batting above average’: mayor praises council’s efforts to support community

Noosa Mayor Clare Stewart with acting CEO Larry Sengstock

The local housing crisis is among the key issues addressed in a Noosa Council report that details its achievements, initiatives and projects from the past 12 months.

Acting CEO Larry Senstock compiled the 28-page Year in Review, which was tabled at last week’s General Committee Meeting. It focused on council’s record $43 million capital works program, new corporate plan and housing strategy.

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Build-to-rent housing is gaining momentum, so will it help ease the rental crisis?

As the housing crisis persists and home ownership slips beyond the reach of many Australians, a new model of housing known as build-to-rent is increasingly being touted as part of the solution.

It may be coming to your neighbourhood soon — there are already more than 60 build-to-rent projects either planned or in construction across the country, delivering almost 20,000 new dwellings, according to Ernst & Young.

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Affordable housing mandates can work for developers, SGCH says

Australian cities would boost their stock of affordable housing and make better use of density bonuses offered by governments if inclusionary zoning requirements were brought in slowly and increased over time, new modelling by NSW provider St George Community Housing shows.

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Plummeting mental health amidst the housing crisis

Mental health plummets and rates of suicide steadily increase in the midst of the housing crisis, studies show.

With soaring rents, more frequent evictions and displacements, greater numbers of people experiencing homelessness, and growing housing instability across the board, it’s not surprising that mental health has taken a hit.

In July this year, Everybody’s Home, a national housing campaign, released the Brutal Reality report, based on surveys of almost 750 people.

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The foundations of Australia’s retirement system are crumbling

The Australian retirement system is based on the presumption that the vast majority of people would own their homes. However, due to falling home ownership rates and people carrying mortgage debt well into their retirement years, that assumption is failing.

A report by the Australian Housing Urban Research Institute (AHURI) estimates that 440,000 older households will be unable to find or afford suitable housing by 2031.

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