This report examines the long-term impacts of transferring public housing to community housing providers in Australia. Public housing transfers have been a prominent government strategy for growing Australia’s community housing sector for decades. Recent changes have resulted in divergent outcomes. Assessing the impacts of different programs informs more effective transfer strategies.

This research examines how governments can encourage small-scale private investors to provide affordable rental housing. It finds that landlords who follow the positively geared, long-term hold investment model are most likely to be part of affordable housing schemes. The research finds unaimous support among landlords and lays out the advantages for them.

This research seeks to inform improved housing and homelessness responses to gendered housing experiences, and to explicitly broaden the ways to conceptualise and engage with gender in housing policy, research, and data collection and analysis.

This research provides a geographic and demographic picture of low-income renters in Australia aged 50+ as the basis to finding acceptable solutions to the challenges of population ageing and housing needs in the 21st Century.

The authors of this report assert that a lack of policy reform and action in Australia has resulted in increasing numbers of older people facing their later years living in precarious housing situations.