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This paper examines the relationship between housing assistance and youth offending in New Zealand (NZ). Using the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI), we established three cohorts of youth aged 14–24 who were part of households that received the Emergency Housing Special Needs Grant (EHSNG), lived in public housing, or received the Accommodation Supplement (AS) between 2016 and 2022. We found that offending decreased significantly among young people living in public housing or receiving the AS compared with the general population. However, reductions were not significant among those receiving EHSNGs, highlighting the importance of stable housing assistance on reducing youth offending.
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The historical injustices of colonization, dispossession, and racism have created unique housing challenges influencing the health gap for Indigenous people in high-income countries. Understanding the breadth and nature of research in the area of housing and Indigenous health is key for establishing a research agenda that fills knowledge gaps and informs culturally appropriate housing initiatives.
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This research Inquiry looked at how to change Australia’s housing assistance system into one that supports ‘housing pathways’. A better system for socially supported housing pathways could focus on supporting each person and household’s needs and goals, rather than being constricted by access to a small number of social housing homes.
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This article shapes an introductory advocacy framework for social workers striving to achieve the right to adequate housing for all in the Australian disaster recovery context. Social work human rights–based practice, leveraging upon the human right to adequate housing, is critical for improving the wellbeing of those impacted by disaster.
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In a study on mothers’ experiences of a residential parenting and drug rehabilitation programme, housing was consistently discussed as crucial to recovery in terms of the ability of wāhine (women) to envision a secure future.
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This research explores how changes to government administrative structures and processes affect housing policy in Australia. It outlines what can be done to reduce some of the negative impacts of these changes. Policy makers need to understand the effects of machinery of government changes, particularly in housing where debates about housing policy goals are ongoing.
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In State of the Housing System 2025, the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council (NHSAC or ‘the Council’) presents a sobering view of Australia’s housing system. The deterioration of housing affordability and low levels of new housing supply in 2024 are particularly stark reminders that Australia is still very much in a housing crisis that has been decades in the making.
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This paper comprehensively explores the housing policies in England and Wales, the causes of rough sleeping, the implications of criminalising rough sleeping, and the nexus between human rights and criminalising homelessness.
