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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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.
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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.
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This research is the first critical analysis of the Australian private rental vacancy rate (RVR) — an important, but often unquestioned, housing market signal. It investigates the different methodologies, strengths and limitations of the measure, and how it is used and interpreted.
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This research explores the impact of Australia’s housing crisis on temporary migrants. It examines how housing challenges affect temporary migrants’ wellbeing, their ability to contribute economically, and the distinct housing issues they face.
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Our focus is on older adults experiencing or at risk of housing precarity who lack adequate housing assistance and sufficient wealth to secure housing. This study presents a new conceptualisation of this group, quantifies the scale of the issue, identifies those most affected, and analyses the distribution of wealth among older Australians.
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This community case study examines the efficacy of the Women’s Housing and Support Program (WHSP), which provides case management to older women experiencing homelessness in Melbourne, Australia.
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Using a sample of community mental health clinic clients, this study explores the prevalence of three social determinants of health: food insecurity, homelessness, and neighborhood disorder, and assesses their associations with five outcomes of health, including mental health and physical health.
