Children & young people’s housing disadvantage: Childhood exposure to unaffordable private rental (2003 – 2014)

Many households exposed to unaffordable housing include dependent children and young people. We know remarkably little, however, about the magnitude of this problem, and are only beginning to understand some of the ways these trends affect the childhoods and teen years of Australia’s children and their likely impact on children’s futures. This Report is one of the first of its type in Australia that seeks to chart the nature of housing change, and specific forms of housing disadvantage, experienced by children within mainstream parts of the housing system. Focusing on national change over time in children’s housing experience, as well as a more detailed investigation of how these changes have manifested spatially in the state of Victoria, the Report presents evidence about numbers of children and young people themselves who are affected by affordability disadvantage in Australia’s fastest housing tenure: private rental.

Publication Date: 
2017
Location: 
Australia