Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2018) Housing assistance in Australia 2018, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 27 March 2023.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2018). Housing assistance in Australia 2018. Retrieved from https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/housing-assistance/housing-assistance-in-australia-2018
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Housing assistance in Australia 2018 [Internet]. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2018 [cited 2023 Mar. 27]. Available from: https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/housing-assistance/housing-assistance-in-australia-2018
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2018, Housing assistance in Australia 2018, viewed 27 March 2023, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/housing-assistance/housing-assistance-in-australia-2018
Housing assistance in Australia 2018 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.
812,900 tenants in 396,100 households were living in the main social housing programs across Australia in 2016–17
Community housing continues to grow, more than doubling between 2008–09 and 2016–17 (from 39,800 to 82,900 dwellings)
Waitlists for social housing remain long, with 189,400 households awaiting social housing allocation at 30 June 2017
Nationally, between 4% and 24% of dwellings were considered overcrowded, and between 7% and 26% underutilised in 2016–17
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