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<h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">Band-aid or Panacea? The Role of Private Rental Support Programs in addressing Access Problems in the Australian Housing Market</h1>
<p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Jacobs, Keith</span> and <span class="person_name">Natalier, Kristin</span> and <span class="person_name">Berry, Michael</span> and <span class="person_name">Seelig, Tim</span> and <span class="person_name">Slater, Michele</span> (2007) <xhtml:em>Band-aid or Panacea? The Role of Private Rental Support Programs in addressing Access Problems in the Australian Housing Market.</xhtml:em> Housing Studies, 22 (6). pp. 901-919. ISSN 0267-3037</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2137/2/Hstudies.pdf"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" border="0" class="ep_doc_icon" /></a></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2137/2/Hstudies.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Full text restricted - Requires a PDF viewer<br />141Kb</td><td><form method="get" accept-charset="utf-8" action="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/request_doc"><input value="2722" name="docid" accept-charset="utf-8" type="hidden" /><div class=""><input value="Request a copy" name="_action_null" class="ep_form_action_button" onclick="return EPJS_button_pushed( '_action_null' )" type="submit" /> </div></form></td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02673030701608100">http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02673030701608100</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">Australia has a significant private rental market with over a quarter of households
renting their home from a private landlord. Many of these households are on low incomes and
receive assistance from private rental support programs provided by each Australian state and
territory. In spite of these large numbers, little is known about the effectiveness of policy initiatives to
assist low-income private renters. Limited knowledge of the private rental support programs stands
in stark contrast to the detailed research on programs established to address homelessness and
problems within the public housing sector. This paper addresses this lacuna by reporting on the suite
of initiatives currently funded by state governments to assist low-income households (for example,
bond loans and rental deposits, advice and help with removal expenses). Based on a comprehensive
study of Private Rental Support Programs (PRSPs) commissioned by the Australian Housing and
Urban Research Institute, it is argued that though policies to assist vulnerable tenants are
acknowledged as a success by practitioners and clients, their effectiveness as a policy instrument is
undermined by wider structural changes in the housing market. The paper concludes that the stress
faced by many vulnerable households is likely to intensify over the coming years thereby
compounding the pressure on state Housing Authorities to provide more comprehensive packages of
support that extend beyond just a ‘one-off’ form of assistance.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" border="0" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Additional Information:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">The definitive version is available online at
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content?content=10.1080/02673030701608100</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Australia, private rental housing, support programs</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/360000.html">360000 Policy and Political Science</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/220000.html">220000 Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts - General</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/370104.html">370000 Studies in Human Society > 370100 Sociology > 370104 Urban Sociology and Community Studies</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/310103.html">310000 Architecture, Urban Environment and Building > 310100 Architecture and Urban Environment > 310103 Urban and Regional Planning</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Collections:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">UNSPECIFIED</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">2137</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Dr Keith Jacobs</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">01 Nov 2007 11:47</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">07 Feb 2008 10:58</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=2137;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=2137">item control page</a></p>
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