A critical phase in addressing severe housing deprivation/homelessness and ensuring long-term housing stability and security is the transition from emergency housing to public housing. Emergency housing is seven-day short-term accommodation for people who can no longer stay where they currently reside and/or have nowhere to stay. Emergency housing provides temporary relief in times of crisis, but the move to public housing often signifies a more permanent solution that can offer security, affordability, and community integration.

This project will use linked de-identified microdata from the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI), a collection of linked de-identified microdata from different government agencies, surveys, and the census to build a cohort of people who moved from emergency housing to public housing. The project will look at the hospitalisation rates, rates of interaction with mental outpatient services, the frequency of Emergency Housing Special Needs Grant (EHSNG) applications, the length of time it takes to move from emergency housing to public housing, and changes in income. The housing quality of the cohort in the 2018 Census will also be assessed. 

Project lead Ayo Fasoro