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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2017. Housing Assistance in Australia 2017. Cat. no. WEB 189. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 07 April 2020, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/housing-assistance/housing-assistance-in-australia-2017
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2017). Housing Assistance in Australia 2017. Retrieved from https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/housing-assistance/housing-assistance-in-australia-2017
Housing Assistance in Australia 2017. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 13 July 2017, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/housing-assistance/housing-assistance-in-australia-2017
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Housing Assistance in Australia 2017 [Internet]. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2017 [cited 2020 Apr. 7]. Available from: https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/housing-assistance/housing-assistance-in-australia-2017
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2017, Housing Assistance in Australia 2017, viewed 7 April 2020, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/housing-assistance/housing-assistance-in-australia-2017
Housing assistance in Australia 2017 provides up-to-date information relating to government funded provision of social housing, rent assistance, purchase assistance and support services to help households maintain their tenancies.
Waitlists for social housing remain long, with 194,600 households awaiting social housing allocation as at 30 June 2016
845,000 tenants in 394,300 households were living in the main social housing programs across Australia in 2015–16
Nationally between 4% and 9% of dwellings were considered overcrowded, with between 12% and 25% underutilised
Mainstream community housing continues to grow, increasing 81% since 2009–10 to 80,200 dwellings in 2015–16
Community Housing Data Collection, 2015–16
Indigenous Community Housing Collection, 2015–16
Home Purchase Assistance Collection, 2015–16
Private Rent Assistance Collection, 2015–16
Public Rental Housing Data Collection, 2015–16
State Owned and Managed Indigenous Housing Data Collection, 2015–16
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