Resetting Policies to End Family Homelessness
Abstract Homelessness is a devastating experience for children and their families. Families, the majority of whose members are children, now comprise more than one-third of the overall homeless...
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Mission Australia Cairns Homelessness Services Evaluation
Cairns Homelessness Evaluation Mission Australia recently released our evaluation of Mission Australia’s Cairns Homelessness Services The full report and infographic are available...
The cost of youth homelessness in Australia: research brief
Youth Homelessness remains a significant social issue in Australia. When young people are forced to leave home early, they find it very difficult to gain sufficient income to live independently. Family support...
Children and young people’s housing disadvantage: childhood exposure to unaffordable private rental (2003-2014)
Many households exposed to unaffordable housing include dependent children and young people (Rowley and Ong 2012; Stone et al 2013). We know remarkably little, however, about the magnitude of this problem, and...
Innovative models in addressing violence against Indigenous women: Final report
Foregrounding the perspective of Aboriginal people who work within the family violence space or have had experience of family violence, this report is based on qualitative research in three sites in Australia:...
“Whatever it takes”: Access for women with disabilities to domestic and family violence services: Final report
“Whatever it takes”: Access for women with disabilities to domestic and family violence services aims to help tertiary response services to respond effectively to the needs of women with disabilities. It...
Children growing up in families under housing stress
The Institute’s Director, Anne Hollonds said that data from the Growing Up In Australia Longitudinal Study of Australian Children showed that about 30 per cent of children in the study experienced housing...
Social housing legal responses to crime and anti-social behaviour: impacts on vulnerable families
This research reviewed social housing tenancies law and policies in five jurisdictions, and national policy principles and frameworks relating to four types of vulnerable people: women affected by domestic...