Week 6: Social Welfare: Housing Flashcards
why do many people who need social welfare never receive it
- either not available
- they don’t know support is available
some people enter social welfare system ____ and others have it ____
- willingly
- imposed (ie. child safety)
social welfare is caught up in what tensions?
- tension between state, territory, and federal gov. over policy control, funding and delivery of services
what is the vertical fiscal imbalance
states and territories provide services but commonwealth have control over most resources
what is the mixed economy of welfare (welfare pluralism)
- provision of social welfare services through range of systems
- gov (public/state) sector [federal, state, local]
- for profit/ ‘private’/ market
- non-gov organisations/ not for profit/ voluntary sector
- personal/ private/ household/ family/ individual volunteer
how is social welfare provided
mixed economy of welfare
governments + not for profit + for profit + families
is housing a right in australia
every australian has a fundamental right to an adequate standard of living including access to safe, secure, habitable and affordable home
how is housing linked to wellbeing
- shelter
- home
- safety
- security
- health
- mental health
who mostly rents privately
lower income households (exception older households)
what is traditionally seen as a transitional tenure but is changing
renting privately
problems with private rental sector
- supply and demand
- affordability
- availability and access to low cost housing
- security of tenure
- appropriateness and location
- blacklisting
what is social housing
- non-privately owned/managed (rental) housing
- intended to deliver affordable, secure housing for lower income
main forms of social housing?
- public rental housing
- longer term community housing
other examples of social housing
- co-operatives
- crisis and transitional housing (community owned/ managed housing)
- emerging housing companies and associations
- co-housing
role of social housing
- affordability, appropriate housing, accessibility (long waiting list)
- addresses failure of private housing market
what kind of pressure is social housing under and why
- political pressure
- demand rises and supply falls
how will social housing of the future be different
- community housing (incl. boarding houses)
- social mix eg. brisbane housing company
who mostly lives in private rental market
most non-aged lower income households
security of tenure in europe and australia is?
very different (see lecture slides for comparison)
recurrent direct housing assistance examples
- commonwealth rent assistance (centrelink)
- first home owner grants
- bond loan and financial assistance
- tenancy advice, advocacy
direct housing assistance (capital)
- social housing funds to state govt. and community agencies
- social housing agreement (low cost priv. rental)
indirect housing assistance (tax expenditure)
- taxation benefits to home owners (no capital gains tax)
- taxation benefits to rental investors (negative gearing)
national housing strategy and national affordable housing agreement are examples of ?
commonwealth - state housing policy
tied and untied programs of commonwealth state housing policy?
- social housing
- homelessness
- indigenous australians living in remote areas
