Precariously placed: housing affordability, quality and satisfaction of Australians with disabilities

Z Aitken; E Baker; H Badland; K Mason; R Bentley; A Beer; AM Kavanagh

Journal article

Precariously placed: housing affordability, quality and satisfaction of Australians with disabilities

Z Aitken, E Baker, H Badland, K Mason, R Bentley, A Beer, AM Kavanagh

Disability and Society | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | Published : 2019

DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2018.1521333

Abstract

Access to adequate, safe, secure, accessible and affordable housing is a fundamental human right and one stipulated in the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Australian adults with disabilities experience housing disadvantage including homelessness, poor-quality housing and housing unaffordability; however, we lack a comprehensive comparison of the housing circumstances of people with and without disabilities and differences by impairment type. We analysed data from a nationally representative sample of 11,394 working-aged Australians collected in 2011. We found that people with disabilities experienced disadvantage across all housing indicators, and peopl..

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council, Centre for Research Excellence in Disability and Health [APP1116385]; Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant [DP170101434]. HB supported by Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellowship; EB supported by ARC Future Fellowship [FT140100872]; RB supported by ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100131).