Rent assistance can ease rental stress, but it won’t help low-income earners find secure and affordable housing when it’s in such short supply, nor stop disadvantage being concentrated in some areas.
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Why are some of the problems with housing stress and homelessness worse in New South Wales than in other states?
Rent assistance is only $10-14 per day, well below rent levels.
As property values skyrocket, long-term renters — many of whom are elderly — face the very real risk of homelessness.
Controlling for other factors, the mental health cost of renting can be eliminated through longer tenure and greater security.
In the first analysis of its kind, researchers interviewed Australians over 50 who have been house-sitting for more than a year.
JobKeeper and the COVID Supplement to JobSeeker benefits will be gone in a week. The combined effect will be to halve some recipients’ incomes and the rent they can afford.
Even before the pandemic added to their financial stresses, a survey of international students suggests more than 20,000 were renting beds that are available to them for only certain hours.
The impacts of the pandemic on jobs and incomes have been so widespread and severe that low-income households can afford very few properties despite rents falling in some parts of our capital cities.
High rents and insecurity are constant sources of financial and emotional stress for low-income women. They describe what it’s like struggling to survive and being one step away from being homeless.
Older women have been the fastest-growing group of homeless people in recent years. New research shows about 240,000 women aged 55 or older and another 165,000 women aged 45-54 are at risk.
The hotspots in Melbourne align with areas of significant housing and financial stress.
Top contributors
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Research Associate, Centre for People, Organisation and Work, RMIT University
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Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct associate, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Macquarie University Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University
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Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT University
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Housing Research, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Guelph
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Research Fellow, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Policy and Society, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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PhD Candidate, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
