Tenancy Sustainment

Sense of home is linked to physical and mental wellbeing; however, less is known about achieving it in collaborative housing contexts like housing cooperatives. This study extends the concept of sense of home by focusing on collaborative settings, contrasting with individual and market-driven housing.
Despite its prevalence, there has been scant research on evictions in Australia. We draw on 53 interviews with private tenants in two states, New South Wales and Queensland to understand the impacts of eviction.
The purpose of this study was to understand youth transitioning from foster care, focusing on housing instability while transitioning to independent living. The study explored how early adversities in foster care led to compounded challenges, particularly during the transition to adulthood.
This research examines the consequences when households face the possibility of being evicted, or are actually evicted. Through in-depth interviews with 53 private tenants in New South Wales and Queensland, we found these experiences negatively shaped people’s lives well into the future.
This article investigates and compares the influence of the international right to housing in Ireland and Spain, looking at direct and indirect influence on actions carried out at the national level to protect against evictions.
This working paper addresses the impact of zoning reforms implemented in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2016, and critically evaluates critiques that dismissed the supply and rental market outcomes as a “myth”.
This study aimed to assess the extent to which the association between housing tenure and disability-free life years is independent of socio-demographic circumstances from earlier in life.
This research highlights that in the Australian Housing Aspirations survey a large majority (78%) of private rental tenants aspired to own their own home, while the research survey found three out of five private renters don’t think they will ever be able to afford to buy a home of their own.