Margaret Reynolds

Oct 10, 2024 | apo.org.au | Deb Batterham |Margaret Reynolds |Melek Cigdem-Bayram

Description Homelessness has grown in the suburbs of Australian capital cities, with more than 60 per cent of those experiencing homelessness at the 2021 Census found in Australia’s capital cities (up from around 48 per cent in 2001). Homelessness has increased especially in areas with greater shortages of affordable private rental housing (relative to demand from low income households).

Feb 13, 2024 | apo.org.au | Wendy Stone |Andrea Sharam |Zoë Goodall |Margaret Reynolds

Description With peoples’ gender having a real impact of their ability to find safe, affordable housing, this research highlights that policy-makers and support services need to develop secure and accurate data collection and collation practices in order to improve outcomes.

Aug 9, 2023 | apo.org.au | Wendy Stone |Margaret Reynolds |Piret Veeroja |Emma Power

Description This report focuses on the intersection of two concurrent trends that are acting to reshape the experience of ageing in Australia. The first of these is the structural ageing of the Australian population itself – the growth in the proportion of people aged 55 years and over living in Australia, in real terms.

Aug 9, 2023 | theconversation.com | Emma Power |Amity James |Francesca Perugia |Margaret Reynolds |Piret Veeroja |Wendy Stone

The collision between an ageing population and a housing crisis has left more older people in Australia enduring housing insecurity and homelessness. Our research, released today, explores how the scale of these problems among older people has grown over the past decade. Our report, Ageing in a Housing Crisis, shows safe, secure and affordable housing is increasingly beyond the reach of older people. This growing housing insecurity is system-wide.