Research / Reports
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This study analyses current geographic mobility and downsizing behaviours among Australians aged over 55, and considers the barriers to, and consequences of downsizing. Retired Australians tend to retain high levels of housing wealth (rising to 49% of assets for homeowners aged 75+) and most choose not to downsize, either by moving to a smaller dwelling or a less-expensive home.
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The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety’s Interim Report has found the aged care system fails to meet the needs of its older, vulnerable, citizens. It does not deliver uniformly safe and quality care, is unkind and uncaring towards older people and, in too many instances, it neglects them.
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The 2018 AHURI International Study Tour to Canada provided senior Australian housing officials with an in-depth understanding of leading international housing reform initiatives and effective program and service innovations.
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The paper examines the experiences of vulnerable people in the private rental market. It also discusses policies that affect outcomes for vulnerable renters.
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This report presents the findings from the evaluation of the Eviction Prevention in the Community (EPIC) Pilot program. The EPIC program provides wrap around eviction prevention services to tenants facing an imminent risk of eviction within the City of Toronto.
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This AHURI study investigated the needs of Indigenous women and children who are severely over-represented in rates of domestic and family violence (DFV).
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Cairns Homelessness Evaluation Mission Australia recently released our evaluation of Mission Australia’s Cairns Homelessness Services The full report and infographic are available here:
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The study aim was to test whether a 12-week publically rebated group programme, based upon Steketee and Frost’s Cognitive Behavioural Therapy-based hoarding treatment, would be efficacious in a community-based setting. Over a 3-year period, 77 participants with clinically significant hoarding were recruited into 12 group programmes. All completed treatment; however, as this was a community-based naturalistic study, only 41 completed the post-treatment assessment. Treatment included psychoeducation about hoarding, skills training for organization and decision making, direct in-session exposure to sorting and discarding, and cognitive and behavioural techniques to support out-of-session sorting and discarding, and nonacquiring. Self-report measures used to assess treatment effect were the Savings Inventory-Revised (SI-R), Savings Cognition Inventory, and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales.
