ABSTRACT
Worsening problems of housing affordability in Australia have driven a gap between the housing-related hopes and expectations of many Australian households, and their housing and home life realities. Research about the impact of housing affordability problems for households typically focuses on the extent and impact for households of consequent problems such as financial stress, housing security and precarity, locational choice and trade-off and the impact of such factors on various aspects of household wellbeing. An emerging but compelling body of research demonstrates adverse health, child development, educational, employment and happiness outcomes that are directly attributable to these housing-related problems (Mallett 2004; Phibbs and Thompson 2011; Yates and Milligan 2011).
