Women, health and housing assistance: implications in an emerging era of housing provision
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2008
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Baker, Emma Louise
Tually, S M
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Women and the households that they head are over-represented among the most economically and socially disadvantaged households in Australia. Recent changes in the provision of housing assistance for low income households in Australia have distinct implications for women and this paper examines the implications of these changes. Shifting the emphasis in housing assistance away from publicly provided and rent-controlled housing to direct subsidisation of rents for private tenants has important, largely negative, consequences for the health, affordability and security of housing for many women. This situation is made worse given the current housing affordability crisis in Australia, a crisis that extends across all private housing tenures.
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Baker, E.L. & Tually, S.M., 2008.
Women, health and housing assistance: implications in an emerging era of housing
provision. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 43(1), 123-138.