The Shifting Risk of Homelessness among Persons with a Disability: Insights from a National Policy Intervention
Abstract
:1. Introduction
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. The Data Set
2.2. Measuring Disability
2.3. The Index of Relative Homelessness Risk
3. Results
3.1. Pre-NDIS and 2017–18 Index of Relative Homelessness Risk
3.2. The Index of Relative Homelessness Risk by Disability Type
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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IRHR Components | HILDA Variables |
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Cash flow | This variable is a count, at each wave, of the number of cash flow problems that are reported (from a possible 7 in HILDA) |
Number of residential moves | A cumulative sum of the number of moves undertaken in the previous wave, the count at wave 1 is zero |
Evictions | Variable signifying if the individual was evicted from their last accommodation by the landlord |
Low income | Deciles of household income (gross annual income), reverse coded |
Housing costs | This variable is constructed using the values for mortgage and rent payments and is structured as deciles of housing cost |
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Beer, A.; Daniel, L.; Baker, E.; Lester, L. The Shifting Risk of Homelessness among Persons with a Disability: Insights from a National Policy Intervention. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 6512. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186512
Beer A, Daniel L, Baker E, Lester L. The Shifting Risk of Homelessness among Persons with a Disability: Insights from a National Policy Intervention. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(18):6512. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186512
Chicago/Turabian StyleBeer, Andrew, Lyrian Daniel, Emma Baker, and Laurence Lester. 2020. "The Shifting Risk of Homelessness among Persons with a Disability: Insights from a National Policy Intervention" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 18: 6512. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186512
APA StyleBeer, A., Daniel, L., Baker, E., & Lester, L. (2020). The Shifting Risk of Homelessness among Persons with a Disability: Insights from a National Policy Intervention. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(18), 6512. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186512