POLICY EVIDENCE SUMMARY October 2024 - Homelessness increasing in the middle and outer suburbs of

The research changes are leading to the suburbanisation of poverty defined ‘affordable rental dwellings’ as those that rent for and concentrations of disadvantage in the middle and no more than 30 per cent of the upper threshold of quintile outer suburbs of Australia’s capital cities and in ‘left 1 (Q1) household income. [...] of SHSs These findings highlight the importance of place-based In areas with a greater shortage of affordable rental approaches to addressing homelessness and also dwellings relative to demand from low-income households, support the use of point-in-time estimates to investigate a higher percentage of SHS clients are returning for the changing geography of homelessness and explore support after hav. [...] These areas reflect the size of location and SHS capacity the local population at-risk of homelessness and, when There remains a significant mismatch between the location combined with a lack of affordable housing and other of people experiencing homelessness and SHS capacity. [...] Policy Evidence Summary 3 Table 1: Rate and of homeless persons by City and rest of Both Western Australia and the Northern Territory State/Territory: 2001 and 2021 experienced a decline in the share and rate of homelessness in balance of state areas that may be 2001 2021 attributable to previous policies to increase the supply of Rate per 2001 Rate per 2021 10,000 number 10,000 number housing in. [...] Increase supply of social and private The Northern Territory had the highest rate of rental housing homelessness, with rates of homelessness almost 17 times the national average in 2001 (at 844.7 per 10,000 The research findings strongly emphasise increasing the people), although this decreased to being around 10 times supply of rental housing (both private and social) that is the national average.