Sustaining housing: reducing re-entries into homelessness

Guy Johnson, Abigail Lewis and Fiona Carey

Chapter 31 in Research Handbook on Homelessness, 2024, pp 418-430 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Many people that have experienced homelessness struggle to sustain their housing, and many have further spells or episodes of homelessness. This chapter examines policy efforts to reduce re-entries into homelessness. While the chapter draws on international literature, it focuses on the intersection of homelessness and housing policy in Australia, in particular social housing policy which is the principle housing pathway out of homelessness for many people. The chapter starts by positioning the idea of sustaining housing as a key aspect of homelessness prevention. It then defines tenancy sustainment and its relationship to tenancy breakdown. The chapter then reviews empirical studies that examine tenancy sustainment and breakdown patterns of social housing. The final part of the chapter examines Australian programmes designed to sustain tenancies in social housing, and whether they are effective or not in reducing re-entries into homelessness.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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