Policy
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Intended for government, policymakers and practitioners, this research aims to improve housing policy concerning disaster preparedness, prevention, mitigation, response and recovery by enhancing co-ordination. We report on short-term recovery and longer-term mitigation actions.
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This research Inquiry investigated different ways to predict local population growth and change. It looked at what drives people to…
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This article reveals competing representations of DFV-related housing precarity between housing and criminal justice policies, producing uneven effects for DFV victim-survivors.
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Recently, Housing First for Youth emerged as a targeted response to youth homelessness and is presently cited as the ideal model; however, researchers have yet to synthesize the evidence on which this claim is made.
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To date, our research on homelessness, displacement, and trauma has enabled us to present the lived experiences of people—especially women, children, and girls—directly to decision-makers, and to give them a place at the table.
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This research examines the consequences when households face the possibility of being evicted, or are actually evicted. Through in-depth interviews with 53 private tenants in New South Wales and Queensland, we found these experiences negatively shaped people’s lives well into the future.
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This research looks at how housing policy and planning can better prepare for natural disasters, and enable recovery from them. It examines institutional arrangements, planning coordination and disaster management responses.
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This paper considers selected research that has suggested why social work as a profession is undervalued in the disaster sector, and reflects on what a social work enhanced disaster sector in Australia could look like.
