Research

This study aims to investigate build to rent as a potential solution that can be integrated into Australia’s housing policy framework to deliver affordable, professionally managed rental supply.
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.
This study examines how homelessness is represented on TikTok through a summative content analysis on the top 200 TikTok videos with the hashtag #homelessness on July 15, 2022.
Public housing estate renewal programmes increasingly require that tenants move from their homes to enable redevelopment; a process we refer to as renewal-initiated tenant relocation. This paper examines the role of relocation officers—staff responsible for managing renewal-initiated tenant relocation—in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia.
This study shows how cohortisation engenders a new problematisation of homelessness, replacing the neoliberal tendency to blame the individual with a focus on the failure of service systems to recognise and respond to cohort differences.
This research aims to answer the question “which types of interventions support access to care for people experiencing homelessness?” and thus provide evidence on the types of interventions that foster access to healthcare services for people experiencing homelessness.
Often, studies examining experiences of homelessness after incarceration use emergency homeless shelters as proxies for homelessness itself. This study employs a more inclusive definition.
This research finds that a key part of displaceability is the iterative enrollment of unhoused persons in services and street outreach and their affective anticipation of always out-of-reach housing.