Demand for government-funded specialist homelessness accommodation 2008-09: a report from the SAAP National Data Collection

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• Preliminary pages (107KB PDF)
  • Title & verso title
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations and symbols
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
  • Summary 
    • Turn-away rates
    • Are the accommodation needs of existing clients being met?
    • Why was accommodation not provided?
• Main body
  1. Introduction (82KB PDF)
     1. SAAP
     2. NAHA and NPAH
     3. SAAP National Data Collection
     4. Caution on interpreting data in this report
        • New government arrangements
        • Sample size, period surveyed
        • Exclusion of Victorian data
     5. Structure of the report
  2. Meeting the accommodation needs of clients and accompanying children (73KB PDF)
     1. Provision of accommodation
        • States and territories
        • Client group
        • Primary target group of agency
     2. Tables
  3. Unmet requests for accommodation (101KB PDF)
     1. Extent of unmet requests
        • States and territories
        • Requesting group
        • Primary target group of agency
     2. Referrals for accommodation
        • States and territories
        • Requesting group
        • Primary target group of agency
     3. Tables
  4. People making a valid unmet request for accommodation (79KB PDF)
     1. People requesting accommodation
        • States and territories
        • Requesting group
        • Primary target group of agency
        • Sex
        • Age
        • Country of birth
        • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
     2. Tables
  5. Estimating the number of people turned away without receiving accommodation (35KB PDF)
     1. Data issues
  6. Adults and unaccompanied children turned away without receiving accommodation (80KB PDF)
     1. Turn-away as a percentage of those requiring new and immediate accommodation
        • States and territories
        • Requesting group
        • Primary target group of agency
     2. Turn-away as a percentage of the total expressed demand for immediate accommodation
        • States and territories
        • Requesting group
        • Primary target group of agency
     3. Tables
  7. Accompanying children turned away without receiving accommodation (79KB PDF)
     1. Turn-away as a percentage of those requiring new and immediate accommodation
        • States and territories
        • Requesting