Cities & Housing - Projects

Housing costs, housing assistance and work disincentives: attitudes to work and employment decisions

This research seeks to assess the effect of housing costs and subsidy structures on the capacity of unemployed people to gain work. Specifically, it looks at how the housing costs that unemployed people pay in various tenures, and the housing assistance available to them, assist or inhibit the transition to work. This collaborative research project with the Urban Frontiers Program (University of Western Sydney) and the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (University of Canberra) is funded by AHURI.