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released: 19 Dec 2007 author: AIHW media release

Although SAAP agencies accommodate large numbers of people every day, they cannot always meet all the requests for SAAP accommodation. This report provices information about the level of unmet demand for SAAP accommodation, including how the estimates are calculated.

ISBN 978 1 74024 740 5; Cat. no. HOU 169; 103pp.; INTERNET ONLY

Full publication

Demand for SAAP accommodation by homeless people 2005–06 (543K PDF)

Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (81KB PDF)
    • Half title and verso pages
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations and symbols
    • Summary
  • Sections (293KB PDF)
    1. Introduction
      1. The Supported Accommodation Assistance Program
      2. The SAAP National Data Collection
      3. Relationships between the SAAP collections
      4. New Core Data Set
      5. Chapter contents
    2. An overview of homelessness and SAAP
      1. Estimating the number of homeless people
    3. Meeting the accommodation needs of clients and accompanying children
      1. Clients
      2. Accompanying children
      3. Tables
    4. Unmet requests for SAAPaccommodation
      1. Invalid unmet requests
      2. Valid unmet requests
      3. Referrals for accommodation
      4. Tables
    5. People making a valid unmet request for SAAP accommodation
      1. Adults and unaccompanied children
      2. Accompanying children
      3. Total people
      4. Tables
    6. Estimating the number of people turned away without receiving SAAP accommodation
      1. Data issues
    7. Adults and unaccompanied child renturned away without receiving SAAP accommodation
      1. Turn-away as a per cent of people requiring new SAAP accommodation
      2. Turn-away as a per cent of total expressed demand for SAAP accommodation
      3. Tables
    8. Accompanying children turned away without receiving SAAP accommodation
      1. Turn-away as a per cent of people requiring new SAAP accommodation
      2. Turn-away as a per cent of total expressed demand for SAAP accommodation
      3. Tables
    9. 9 Total people turned away without receiving SAAP accommodation
      1. Turn-away as a per cent of people requiring new SAAP accommodation
      2. Turn-away as a per cent of total expressed demand for SAAP accommodation
      3. Tables
    10. Meeting the demand for SAAP accommodation
      1. Patterns of accommodation use
      2. Insufficient accommodation available
      3. Meeting the demand for SAAP accommodation
      4. Hidden need for accommodation
      5. Supply and demand
      6. Conclusion
      7. Tables
  • End matter (286KB PDF)
    • Appendixes
      1. Demand for SAAP accommodation summary diagram
      2. The data
        1. The Client Collection
        2. The Demand for Accommodation Collection
        3. Interpretation of tables
        4. Counting rules and glossary
      3. Collection forms
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures

Recommended citation

AIHW 2007. Demand for SAAP accommodation by homeless people 2005-06. SAAP NDCA report series no. 11. Cat. no. HOU 169. Canberra: AIHW.