Table of contents

  • Preliminary material (152K PDF)
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Abbreviations and symbols
    • Acknowledgments
  • Sections
    • Overview (303K PDF)
    • Executive summary
    • 1. Housing assistance in Australia
      1. Background
      2. Analysis of the distribution of housing assistance in Australia
      3. Data sources
      4. Caveats on the approach used
    • 2. Housing assistance to renters
      1. Overview
      2. Assistance to private renters
      3. Assistance to public housing tenants
      4. Summary
    • 3. Housing assistance to home owners (299K PDF)
      1. Overview
      2. Direct assistance to home owners through the First Home Owner Grant
      3. Indirect assistance to home owners arising from the tax system
      4. Summary
    • 4. Distribution of direct and indirect assistance across tenures
      1. Overview of direct and indirect assistance
      2. Aggregated measure of direct and indirect assistance
      3. The distribution of direct and indirect assistance
      4. Summary
    • References
    • Glossary
  • End matter (285K PDF)
    • Appendix 1: Aggregate estimates of tax expenditures from time series data
    • Appendix 2: Methodology of estimating indirect housing assistance from
      the 1999 AHS data
    • Appendix 3: Methodology of converting income units to households
    • Appendix 4: Discrepancies between the 1999 AHS data and administrative data
    • Appendix 5: Interpreting estimates derived from the 1999 AHS
    • Appendix 6: Tables