Michael’s Intensive Supported Housing Accord (MISHA) was a philanthropically funded initiative that provided long-term stable accommodation while supporting the men to build the lives they would like to live. The MISHA Project used a Housing First approach, which is about providing homeless people with immediate access to long-term, sustainable accommodation, rather than an initial stop-gap...

Current policies for increasing the supply of affordable housing in Australia envisage a greatly increased role for community housing organisations (CHOs), including as a provider of housing for homeless people. Data from the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare indicate that in the year to June 2008 around 36 per cent of new CHO allocations...

Retirement-village residents may be disadvantaged by current policy on eligibility for Commonwealth Rent Assistance, reports this paper examining potential inequities in rent assistance for older people across different types of housing. This report is concerned with policies on Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA) for older people living in retirement villages, manufactured home parks and caravan parks...

To what extent does receiving SAAP services facilitate positive changes in client self-reliance, and what forms does this improvement take for different groups of clients? This study provides a positive picture of the extent to which clients felt they had moved towards self-reliance after getting help from SAAP services. Nevertheless, many were still living in...

The aims of the study were to review trends in out-of-home care, both in the numbers of children being placed in different types of care in Australia and in the ways of organising and supporting such care that are emerging in different national and State contexts. The study also involved identifying emerging models of care...