Research / Reports
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This research explores workplace trauma in Australia’s social housing and homelessness services, including its extent, causes and impacts, and examines current practices to address this trauma, options to mitigate it, and guiding principles for response.
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This essay critically examines the intersection of Adverse Childhood Experiences with Social Determinants of Health, exploring the role of social workers in co-creating Protective and Compensatory Experiences through their practice to support children’s lifelong positive health outcomes.
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This research explores how property technology is used in Australia’s private and social rental sectors and examines the implications of this for individuals and housing access, and whether existing policy and legal frameworks are fit-for-purpose.
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The global housing affordability ‘crisis’ highlights a policy failure shared across many jurisdictions and countries: a disconnect between the affordability challenge and capacity to act. The article draws on a series of stakeholder interviews involved in the design and delivery of public housing estate renewal in Australia.
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This paper presents Autonomous Urban Resource Al locator (AURA), a novel multi-agent reinforcement learning system for real-time affordable housing site selection under hard regulatory constraints.
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Homelessness and mental illness reinforce each other through a cyclical relationship, and addressing this crisis requires integrated, housing‑centered interventions.
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This study examines the extent to which housing allowances and social housing protect against housing precarity experienced by low-income renters using Australian and UK data.
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Older women are the fastest-growing group at risk of homelessness in Australia, with financial avoidance behaviours amplifying this risk. Between 2023 and 2024, Sefa, Latitude, and Housing Choices, researched these behaviours and piloted a low cost, high-reach social media intervention using the COM-B and transtheoretical models to prompt recognition, reflection, and action.
