Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: a focus report on housing and homelessness

1. Introduction

• Background
• Data sources

2. Indigenous housing profile

• Policy response to housing affordability and overcrowding
• Housing tenure
• Geographical trends in Indigenous tenure
• Overcrowding in Indigenous households

3. Housing stress and financial assistance

• Housing affordability and financial stress
• Financial assistance

4. Indigenous households in social housing

• Social housing and Indigenous households
• New housing allocations and tenure length
• Social housing dwelling standards and tenant satisfaction

5. Homelessness among Indigenous Australians

• Types of homelessness
• Characteristics of the homeless
• Indigenous people in marginal housing

6. Indigenous Australians seeking homelessness services

• Specialist homelessness services
• Number of Indigenous people who sought help
• SHS client characteristics
• Priority groups
• Indigenous SHS clients by state and territory
• SHS clients by presenting unit type
• Why people are seeking help
• Services needed and provided
• Housing status of Indigenous SHS clients
• Geographical trends in changes in SHS clients’ homelessness status
• Indigenous clients returning for assistance in 2017–18

Appendix A: Data quality statements

• A.1 Census of Population and Housing
• A.2 Specialist Homelessness Services Collection
• A.3 Housing assistance data collections

Appendix B: Data scope and quality

Appendix C: Technical notes

• C.1 Census of Population and Housing
• C.2 Specialist Homelessness Services Collection
• C.3 Housing assistance data collections
• C.4 Number of households receiving financial assistance

Appendix D: Geography methods

End matter: Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Symbols; Glossary; References; List of tables; List of figures; Related publications;