AIHW logo

METEOR logo

Our sites
AIHW GEN Aged Care Data Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Health Performance Framework
Indigenous Mental Health and
Suicide Prevention Clearinghouse
Australian Mesothelioma Registry Housing data Regional Insights for Indigenous Communities
Contact FAQs

Site Navigation

  • Find metadata
    • Find metadata
    • Getting started
    • Data set specifications
    • Indicator sets
    • Data quality statements
    • Data dictionary archives
  • Metadata management
    • Metadata management
    • Data standards
    • Registration authorities
    • Registration statuses
  • How to use METEOR
    • How to use METEOR
    • First steps
    • Using My Page
    • Downloading and printing
    • FAQs
    • About METEOR
  • Learn about metadata
    • Learn about metadata
    • Metadata explained
    • How to create metadata
    • Metadata development resources
Your session is about to end!
Your session will expire at [TIME]
Select Extend at the top right corner or you will be logged out
Welfare PI Framework  >  Healthy living  >  Shelter and housing

Shelter and housing

Identifying and definitional attributes

Item type:Help on this termFramework Dimension
METEOR identifier:Help on this term392699
Description:Help on this term

Access to adequate shelter and housing is recognised as a basic human need. As well as providing protection from environmental elements and access to facilities such as heating and sanitation, housing gives people a place to enjoy privacy and recreational activities, keep their possessions, spend time with friends and family, and express their identity (ABS 2001a). Housing equity is also a major component of personal wealth.

Shelter and housing are used to describe the housing circumstances of Australians and can be further devidied into three sub dimensions.

  1. Housing tenure relates to the issues of security and stability; home ownership also gives autonomy and a form of social insurance to owners.
  2. Housing affordability affects the broader economic and social wellbeing of individuals and communities.
  3. Homelessness indicates housing deprivation, but as it is influenced by a wide range of social issues (such as mental health and family breakdown) it also provides a gauge of more general social dysfunction.

Indicators in this framework

  • National Affordability Housing Agreement: g-Proportion of Indigenous households living in overcrowded conditions, 2010
            Homelessness, Standard 16/02/2011
            Indigenous, Standard 11/09/2012
  • National Affordability Housing Agreement: 3: Proportion of Australians who are homeless, 2010
            Homelessness, Standard 16/02/2011
  • National Affordable Housing Agreement: Output 1 (supplementary b)-Number of people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness who are assisted to secure and sustain their tenancies, 2011
            Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011
            Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011
  • National Affordable Housing Agreement: Output 5a-Number of people receiving home purchase assistance, 2011
            Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011
            Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011
  • National Affordable Housing Agreement: Output 5c-Number of people receiving home purchase assistance, 2011
            Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011
            Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011
  • National Affordable Housing Agreement: Indicator 1(a)-Proportion of low income households in mortgage stress, 2011
            Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011
            Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011
  • National Affordable Housing Agreement: Indicator 4-Proportion of people experiencing repeat periods of homelessness, 2011
            Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011
            Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011
  • National Affordable Housing Agreement: Indicator 6-Proportion of Indigenous households owning or purchasing a home, 2011
            Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011
            Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011
  • National Affordable Housing Agreement: Indicator 5-Proportion of Australian households owning or purchasing a home, 2011
            Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011
            Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011
  • National Affordable Housing Agreement: Indicator 3-Proportion of Australians who are homeless, 2011
            Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011
            Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011
  • National Affordable Housing Agreement: Indicator 8-Proportion of Indigenous households living in houses of an acceptable standard, 2011
            Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011
            Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011
  • National Affordable Housing Agreement: Output 5b-Number of people receiving home purchase assistance, 2011
            Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011
            Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011
  • National Affordable Housing Agreement: Indicator 7-Proportion of Indigenous households living in overcrowded conditions, 2011
            Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011
            Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011
  • National Affordable Housing Agreement: Output 1 (supplementary a)-Number of people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness who are assisted to secure and sustain their tenancies: Housing proxy, 2011
            Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011
            Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011
  • National Affordable Housing Agreement: Output 3-Number of households assisted in social housing, 2011
            Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011
            Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011
  • National Affordable Housing Agreement: Indicator 1 (main)-Proportion of low income households in rental stress, 2011
            Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011
            Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011
  • National Affordability Housing Agreement: 4: Proportion of people experiencing repeat periods of homelessness, 2010
            Homelessness, Standard 16/02/2011
  • National Affordable Housing Agreement: Indicator 2-Proportion of homes sold or built that are affordable by low and moderate income households, 2011
            Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011
            Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011
  • National Affordable Housing Agreement: Output 2-Number of people who are assisted to move from crisis accommodation or primary homelessness to sustainable accommodation, 2011
            Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011
            Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011
  • National Affordable Housing Agreement: Output 1 (main)-Number of people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness who are assisted to secure and sustain their tenancies, 2011
            Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011
            Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011

<Title>

<body>
<footer>

View

  • Print view

Download

  • Word
  • PDF
  • Advanced options

Review

  • Compare items
Help
Downloading

The download may take a while, please wait.

Do not refresh the screen until the download is complete.

Terms & Conditions
Do you agree with the Terms and Conditions?

<Title>

<body>
<footer>
Loading...

Navigation

  • Find metadata
  • Metadata management
  • How to use METEOR
  • Learn about metadata

Resources

  • Accessibility
  • Copyright
  • Disclaimer
  • Freedom of Information
  • Privacy policy
  • Vulnerability and disclosure policy

Quick Links

  • Contact
  • FAQs
  • Search
AIHW logo
© Australian Insitute of Health and Welfware, 2023