2021 Intergenerational Report
The Intergenerational Report projects an outlook for the economy and the Australian Government’s budget over the next 40 years. This outlook has been profoundly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has...
Research / Reports
Re imagining Home Research Report
The author Liz Lennon hopes that older single women reading this will understand an critical fact. This is that systemic and political issues and failures are what has placed them in poverty, housing stress...
Policy coordination and housing outcomes during COVID-19
This study gathered data on the scale and scope of policy interventions in the housing system during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia—a critical first step for on-going assessment of the outcomes and...
Australian Homelessness Monitor 2020
The Australian Homelessness Monitor 2020 (AHM 2020) analyses changes in the scale and nature of homelessness in Australia, as well as its social and economic drivers. It also contains the first in-depth...
Victoria’s Homelessness Response
The Victorian Auditor-General's Office (VAGO) has completed a performance audit of the Department pf Health and Human Services (DHHS) Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Plan (HRSAP). The HRSAP is a...
Crisis Accommodation in Mareeba and the Atherton Tablelands
Mareeba Community Housing Company (MCHC) commissioned James Cook University in April 2019 to conduct research on the perceived need for crisis accommodation in Mareeba and the Atherton Tablelands, and to...
Affordable housing in innovation-led employment strategies
This project investigates the role of affordable rental housing in supporting digital innovation and employment growth in metropolitan and satellite cities. Through an international evidence review, case...
#StayHome? The impact of Covid-19 on unaccompanied homeless children in Tasmania.
This is an interim report from the research project #Stayhome. Drawing on the voices of community support workers, this research was designed to capture the wide-ranging impacts of mandatory stay at home and...
COVID-19 and the housing and homelessness sector : Thematic analysis and future directions for discussion
This paper aims to analyse the issues, questions and responses collected through these meetings as a source of consolidated learning for Q Shelter, Government and the sector. This paper also proposes some...
Service usage and service gaps during the COVID-19 pandemic
The aim of this paper is to analyse the level and distribution of service needs during the peak of the COVID-19 infection period in Australia – roughly mid-March to mid-May 2020. We show that the greatest...