National Homelessness Research

The Australian Government has allocated $11.4 million over the four years 2009-13 to meet the priorities in the National Homelessness Research Agenda.

A number of research gaps have been identified through a literature review, a researcher roundtable, responses to the Green Paper Which Way Home and the White Paper The Road Home, and select consultation on the draft Research Agenda. The research priorities and questions under the Agenda reflect these research gaps. They are:

  1. Data for measuring homelessness;
  2. Service system capacity and effectiveness; and
  3. Understanding of homelessness

The full reports and evidence notes are now available on the following research topics:

  1. Developing an Effective Homelessness Workforce
  2. Pulling it All Together: Design Considerations for an Integrated Homelessness Services System – Place Based Network Analysis
  3. What Makes a Difference? Building a Foundation for Nationally Consistent Outcome Measures: An Evidence-based Client Outcomes Model for Homelessness
  4. Integrated Service Delivery in a Regional Homelessness Service System
  5. The Geelong Study: A Review of Victorian Education Initiatives Relating to Youth Homelessness
  6. People in Improvised Dwellings, Tents and Sleepers Out
  7. Keeping Off the Streets: Effective Models of Intervention with People who are Sleeping Rough – Service Models in Adelaide, Perth and Darwin
  8. Street to Home in Australia: New Approaches to Ending Rough Sleeping in Brisbane and Sydney
  9. Mapping services for rough sleepers in Hobart, Canberra and Melbourne
  10. Why are special services needed to address Indigenous homelessness?
  11. The Influence of Unstable Housing on Children’s Wellbeing and Development
  12. Indigenous Women and the Role of Transactional Sex in Homelessness
  13. Finding work: Homelessness and Employment
  14. Supporting Fathers Who Are Homeless
  15. Mapping and Reviewing Homelessness Programs
  16. Homelessness and Older Australians: Scoping the issues
  17. A study of crisis intervention and planned family support with vulnerable families
  18. Lifecourse institutional costs of homelessness for vulnerable groups
  19. Homeless away from Home
  20. Exploring primary health care needs, welfare requirements and service use of people experiencing homelessness in Melbourne’s CBD
  21. Early intervention strategies to reduce the need for women and children to make repeated use of refuge and other crisis accommodation
  22. The Role of the Philanthropic Sector in Addressing Homelessness: Australian and International Experience – a Literature Review
  23. Integrated responses to homelessness in Australia: an analysis of ‘joined-up’ policy and practice
  24. The role of local government in addressing homelessness: a literature review
  25. Evaluation of the Melbourne Street to Home program: Baseline Report
  26. Addressing homelessness amongst persons with a disability: Identifying and enacting best practice
  27. Service Users: A Baseline Report on Brisbane’s Street to Home Program
  28. Service Users: A Baseline Report on Sydney’s Way2Home Program
  29. The Challenge of Monitoring Growth in Regional Indigenous Homelessness
  30. No Wrong Door? Managing Indigenous Homelessness in Mt Isa
  31. Responding to Children in Specialist Homelessness Services
  32. Are Boarding Houses Disappearing?