Housing, accommodation and homelessness
At a Glance - Housing and accommodationAt 30 June 2006, there were 202,800 households in Tasmania, an increase of 7.4 per cent on number of households from 30 June 2000 and 11.2 per cent from the June 1995 estimate. At 30 June 2006, the average Tasmanian household size had decreased to 2.3 persons from 2.4 persons in the same period in 2002.[1] On 2006 Census night in Tasmania, 36.8 per cent of all occupied private dwellings were fully owned and 24.6 per cent of total occupied private dwellings were rented. [2] Tasmania’s rate of private rental housing is comparatively low at 16.4 per cent. This means that Tasmanians face greater competition when they seek to enter the private rental market, which is compounded by the low private rental vacancy levels, of around two per cent. [3] Young people may experience discrimination in the private rental market, such as denial of access, variations of terms and conditions of tenancy, and false assumptions about capacity to pay, lack of references and lack of rental history. [4] Councils around Tasmania have identified housing and accommodation as a present and emerging issue for young people. [5] The Tasmanian and Australian Governments provide the Supported Accommodation and Assistance Program (SAAP), and in 2004-05 nearly 30 per cent of SAAP funding was directed at young people. In the same period, 2,650 children aged between zero and 17 were housed by the SAAP program. [6] At a Glance - HomelessnessThe ABS divides ‘homelessness’ into two categories: [7]
ABS Statistics - 1307.6 - Household economic resources - March 2008 ABS Statistics - 4102.0 - Housing - Australian social trends - ABS 2007 See also: Ending Homelessness in Tasmania - Report to the Tasmanian Government by Rosanne Haggerty - May 2008 Housing and accommodationReport - Anglicare Tasmania - Housing: Building a Better Tasmania -The bigger picture, 2007 HomelessnessAbout Housing - Department of Health and Human Services Report – Australian Bureau of Statistics(ABS) Counting the Homeless, 2001 Report – AIHW - Homeless people in SAAP: SAAP National Data Collection annual report 2004–05, 2006 Report – Australia’s Homeless Youth - National Youth Commission, 2008 [1] Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Homeless people in SAAP: SAAP National Data Collection annual report 2004–05 Tasmania supplementary tables. Canberra: AIHW, 2006, p.3 [4] Tasmanian Government submission to the Australia’s Homeless Youth Report, Report – Australia’s Homeless Youth - A Report of the National Youth Commission Inquiry into Youth Homelessness, National Youth Commission, 2008 [5] Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPAC) The Local Government Youth Services Survey Report 2005/2006-2006-2007, May 2008 [6] Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Homeless people in SAAP: SAAP National Data Collection annual report 2004–05 Tasmania supplementary tables.. Canberra: AIHW, 2006, p.3 [7] Chamberlain and MacKenzie (1992) cited in 2006 Census: Homeless People |
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