Community Housing Provision

This paper brings the housing studies literature into conversation with scholarship on settler colonialism to consider questions of housing justice in settler colonial societies.
This research aims to identify the factors that govern the spatial location choice of affordable housing. The determinants were derived through an exploratory study of relevant literature studies encompassing different geographical contexts, socio-economic backgrounds, and technological and economic advancement levels.
Centering the wisdom and lived experiences of residents and staff—and informed by liberatory and loving philosophies like harm reduction, disability justice, and abolition—we offer four spatial design values: belonging, care, hope, and growth.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in social housing face common social housing challenges of low income, higher incidence of mental health issues and poorer health along with specific challenges due to the impacts of colonisation and its ongoing manifestations in racism and inequity. A greater understanding of social and emotional wellbeing needs and aspirations is essential in informing the provision of appropriate support.
The objective of the paper is to conceptualise how social housing impacts the life of tenants and how it affects their social mobility.
The social housing sector provides housing to some of society’s most vulnerable people, disproportionately housing people with disabilities and chronic health conditions, the aged and people unable to work. These groups are often more susceptible to health impacts from poor temperature conditions within their home.
A Secondary Analysis of the Australian National Health Survey 2017–2018. This study aimed to examine the health literacy of Australian adults residing in social housing compared with that of people living in other housing types.

Under what conditions will the public accept homeless-serving housing and social service facilities in their neighborhood? In this paper, we…