Social Housing and Poverty in Australia

Abstract

Stable housing is a critical component in addressing financial and social stresses that can lead to poverty or prevent exit from poverty. This analysis explores the correlation between community-level measures of poverty rates and social housing density to better understand how we might best structure future analyses to inform policy and practice on locations for new housing, structure and delivery of social housing, and rent assistance more broadly, for those facing housing stress. Key findings observed at a community level include: • Contemporary poverty rates and social housing density are positively correlated. • High poverty is not always associated with high social housing density. Th..