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August 3, 2020

400,000 women over 45 are at risk of homelessness in Australia

Debbie Faulkner, University of South Australia and Laurence Lester, University of Adelaide

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.

Unionized hospitality workers wait in line to apply for unemployment benefits. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

March 27, 2020

Another housing crisis is coming – and bailouts and eviction freezes won’t be enough to prevent many from losing their homes

Roshanak Mehdipanah, University of Michigan and Gregory Sallabank, University of Michigan

Mass unemployment will make it a lot harder for tens of millions of Americans already struggling to pay for housing to keep their roof over their heads.

The old pathways to home ownership have been displaced by more uncertain routes that waver between owning and renting. Glenn Hunt/AAP

March 5, 2018

Home ownership foundations are being shaken, and the impacts will be felt far and wide

Rachel Ong ViforJ, Curtin University; Gavin Wood, RMIT University, and Susan Smith, University of Cambridge

Increasingly insecure pathways to home ownership are not just a problem for property markets. The fallout is likely to hit retirement incomes, the welfare base, gender equity and the broader economy.

Older women valued a secure private space of their own with, ideally, a small garden. Jacob Lund/shutterstock

October 22, 2017

What do single, older women want? Their ‘own little space’ (and garden) to call home, for a start

Yvonne Hartman, Southern Cross University and Sandy Darab, Southern Cross University

Finding secure affordable housing is a problem for older women across Australia. But new research finds women in regional areas have different priorities from those in the cities.

Around one in seven Australia households either cannot get into housing at market rates or are struggling to pay the rent. shutterstock

August 1, 2017

Affordable housing shortfall leaves 1.3m households in need and rising – study

Steven Rowley, Curtin University and Chris Leishman, University of Adelaide

One in seven Australian households is in a state of housing need. A shortfall in social housing supply means some are locked out of the market and others pay much more for rent than they can afford.

Of those who have experienced homelessness, 62% cite family breakdown or conflict as the main reason for becoming homeless for the first time. shutterstock

May 31, 2017

Family break‑up raises homelessness risk, and critical period is longer for boys

Julie Moschion, The University of Melbourne

Parental separation substantially raises the risk of homelessness by the age of 30 for girls and boys, but only boys are affected by a break-up after the age of 12.

To understand how households cope, we may need to look beneath broad patterns of affordability to the interplay of housing costs with other problems. IDuke/Wikimedia Commons

February 14, 2017

Housing affordability problems might not be all bad

Emma Baker, University of Adelaide

Housing affordability is often not the only problem households face. More often the compounding effects of multiple problems leave people unable to cope, which is why one solution won’t work for all.

The growing numbers of pensioners in private rental accommodation use much of their income to pay for housing. Alan Porritt/AAP

December 11, 2016

Why secure and affordable housing is an increasing worry for age pensioners

Alan Morris, University of Technology Sydney

For the increasing proportion of people living in private rental accommodation who can expect to be dependent on the age pension, the prospects of financial and housing insecurity are grim.

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