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November 23, 2025

Expensive and in bad shape: how housing precarity makes life hard for older Australians

Piret Veeroja, Swinburne University of Technology; Margaret Reynolds, Swinburne University of Technology, and Wendy Stone, Swinburne University of Technology

A new report shows insecure and unaffordable housing among older Australians affects their health and finances, with private renters and women most exposed.

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August 10, 2023

Ageing in a housing crisis: growing numbers of older Australians are facing a bleak future

Emma Power, Western Sydney University; Amity James, Curtin University; Francesca Perugia, Curtin University; Margaret Reynolds, Swinburne University of Technology; Piret Veeroja, Swinburne University of Technology, and Wendy Stone, Swinburne University of Technology

An ageing population is caught in a perfect storm of rising house prices and rents, falling home ownership rates, mortgage debt carried into retirement, insecure rentals and a lack of social housing.

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August 19, 2022

‘We’ve all done the right things’: in Under Cover, older women tell their stories of becoming homeless

Zoe Goodall, Swinburne University of Technology; Margaret Reynolds, Swinburne University of Technology; Piret Veeroja, Swinburne University of Technology, and Wendy Stone, Swinburne University of Technology

A new Australian documentary gives voice to the women in urgent need of policy action on housing insecurity and homelessness.

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November 25, 2021

We identified who’s most at risk of homelessness and where they are. Now we must act, before it’s too late

Deb Batterham, Swinburne University of Technology; Christian A. Nygaard, Swinburne University of Technology; Jacqueline De Vries, University of Tasmania, and Margaret Reynolds, Swinburne University of Technology

To really reduce homelessness we need to prevent those at risk from ever becoming homeless in the first place.

In 2001, around half of homeless people were found in capital cities. Today it’s almost two-thirds. Photographee.eu/Shutterstock

May 29, 2019

Homelessness soars in our biggest cities, driven by rising inequality since 2001

Sharon Parkinson, Swinburne University of Technology; Deb Batterham, Swinburne University of Technology, and Margaret Reynolds, Swinburne University of Technology

Homelessness in Australia is increasingly concentrated in the capital cities, where nearly two in every three people without a home are now found. That’s the finding of a study of the data since 2001.

Slow but steady decline in home ownership continues as 23.6% of all Australian households now rent privately. David Gray/Reuters

July 6, 2017

Home ownership remains strong in Australia but it masks other problems: Census data

Wendy Stone, Swinburne University of Technology; Margaret Reynolds, Swinburne University of Technology, and Terry Burke, Swinburne University of Technology

The latest 2016 Census data assesses what the national home ownership and rental rates are and how these vary location. It also gives us a picture of mortgage and rental costs.

The increasing proportion of children living in housing-related poverty confronts us with the question: what will we do about it? Ollyy/shutterstock.com

December 22, 2016

Rental housing policies trap children in poverty, so how low will we go?

Wendy Stone, Swinburne University of Technology and Margaret Reynolds, Swinburne University of Technology

Many children are living in low-income families that struggle to pay the rent to keep a roof over their heads. Unaffordable housing is fuelling childhood poverty, so where is the policy response?

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