Safe and Sound? How Funding Mix Affects Homelessness Support for Indigenous Australians

AHURI Final Report No. 272, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited, Melbourne DOI:10.18408/ahuri-5109301

95 Pages Posted: 28 Jun 2017

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Angela Spinney

Centre for Urban Transitions

Daphne Habibis

University of Tasmania

Sean McNelis

Centre for Urban Transitions

Date Written: December 21, 2016

Abstract

Indigenous Australians are 14 times more likely to become homeless than other Australians, and their homelessness situations are likely to be more severe. This research examined how the changing mix of government and non-government, direct and indirect funding influences the provision of services to Indigenous Australians and its outcomes.

Keywords: Indigenous, Government Policy, social Housing, Home Ownership, Homeless, Homelessness

JEL Classification: H53, I31, I38, J15

Suggested Citation

Spinney, Angela and Habibis, Daphne and McNelis, Sean, Safe and Sound? How Funding Mix Affects Homelessness Support for Indigenous Australians (December 21, 2016). AHURI Final Report No. 272, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited, Melbourne DOI:10.18408/ahuri-5109301, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2992908

Angela Spinney (Contact Author)

Centre for Urban Transitions ( email )

PO Box 218
Hawthorn, Victoria 3122
Australia

HOME PAGE: http://www.swinburne.edu.au/health-arts-design/staff/profile/index.php?id=aspinney

Daphne Habibis

University of Tasmania ( email )

French Street
Sandy Bay
Tasmania, 7250
Australia

HOME PAGE: http://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/sociology/daphne-habibis

Sean McNelis

Centre for Urban Transitions ( email )

PO Box 218
Hawthorn, Victoria 3122
Australia

HOME PAGE: http://www.swinburne.edu.au/health-arts-design/staff/profile/index.php?id=smcnelis

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