Precarious housing, housing assistance and wellbeing

Project Summary

Australia’s housing system is undergoing a major transformation, marked by growing precariousness that has now spread across all housing tenures. The wellbeing impacts of this are not well-understood. This project aims to develop a contemporary conceptualisation of housing precariousness as a multidimensional experience that exists in potentially variable ways for renters, owners and the marginally housed.

Using mixed methods and cross country analyses, the project expects to produce new evidence on pathways in and out of precariousness, as well as the coping strategies and wellbeing of the precariously housed.

This project benefits housing policymakers and Australians more broadly by increasing our understanding of how to provide housing support that is secure, affordable and suitable to meet Australians’ needs and aspirations. This project’s findings can be used to develop policies that give people more protection from the negative effects of precarious housing on their lives.