Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Half title page and verso
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations and symbols
    • Glossary
    • Summary
  • Sections
    1. An overview of homelessness and SAAP
      1. The SAAP National Data Collection
      2. Estimating the number of homeless people
    2. Total demand for SAAP assistance
      1. How is the total demand for SAAP estimated?
      2. Daily and annual estimates of the demand for SAAP services and accommodation
      3. Tables
    3. Meeting the needs of clients and accompanying children
      1. Meeting the needs of clients
      2. Meeting the needs of accompanying children
      3. Tables
    4. One-off assistance to casual clients
      1. Requesting group
      2. State and territory
      3. Tables
    5. One-off assistance to groups with unmet requests for SAAP accommodation
      1. State and territory
      2. Referrals for accommodation
      3. Tables
    6. Unmet requests for accommodation
      1. Valid and invalid unmet requests
      2. The immediacy of need for accommodation
      3. Tables
    7. Number of people making a valid unmet requests for SAAP accommodation (176K PDF)
      1. Number of potential clients and accompanied children
      2. The immediacy of need for accommodation
      3. Tables
    8. Characteristics of people who made a valid unmet request for SAAP accommodation
      1. Gender and age of potential clients
      2. Gender and age of accompanying children
      3. Country of birth of potential clients and accompanying children
      4. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander status of potential clients and accompanying children
      5. Tables
    9. People turned away without receiving accommodation
      1. Daily request turn-away rate for adults and unaccompanied children
      2. Daily request for accommodation turn-away rate for accompanying children
      3. Ratio of unmet demand to total demand for accommodation for adults and unaccompanied children
      4. Ratio of unmet demand to total demand for accommodation for accompanying children
      5. Meeting the expressed demand for SAAP accommodation
      6. Tables
  • End matter
    • Appendix 1 Additional tables 
    • Appendix 2 The data
      • A2.1 The Client Collection
      • A2.2 The Demand for Accommodation Collection
      • A2.3 The Casual Client Collection
      • A2.4 Interpretation of the tables
      • A2.5 Counting rules and other definitions used in the analysis
    • Appendix 3 Collection forms
    • References