Homelessness research

This report summarises the key findings from the MAC-K Family Homelessness Research Project. It details risk and protective factors related to family homelessness and reveals important implications for service design and practice. The report also highlights the benefits of co-locating low threshold services for disadvantaged families with a specialist homelessness response.

This report shares the pathways out of homelessness for older women living in Brisbane, Australia - highlighting their devastating loss, loneliness and frustration, but also what and who helped them. The women drawing on this experience, together with homelessness service providers, describe an ideal service and the practice approaches necessary to care for and support older women who end up homeless.

This snapshot summarises the findings of an independent evaluation of the Integrated Homelessness Supported Accommodation Program in Darwin, NT.

This research snapshot presents the key findings from a project that aimed to identify the factors that predict positive housing outcomes and early disengagement for people experiencing homelessness who receive support from Mission Australia's services.

Up to one in seven young people could be at risk of homelessness, pointing to the need for more early intervention services to address their issues before they become homeless.