Housing and social inclusion: a household and local area analysis

This is the Final Report from an AHURI-funded research project that uses the social inclusion concept as a means of empirically investigating the relationships between housing and multiple forms of social and economic disadvantage experienced by Australian households. The project's overall aim is to investigate the nature of housing experience among socially included and excluded households, including in different types of local areas, and to contribute a housing perspective to social inclusion and exclusion research and policy nationally and internationally. The overarching research question is: How does housing relate to experiences of social inclusion/exclusion at the individual and household level and how does this relationship vary in more and less socially inclusive areas? To address this we ask the following sub-questions: What is the relationship between social inclusion/exclusion and housing wellbeing, at the household level?; Does this relationship vary systematically for different types of households?; In what ways does this relationship vary for different geographic areas?; and How do residents’ experiences of social inclusion/exclusion and housing wellbeing relate to local housing markets, labour markets and other local area characteristics