Who Pays for Evictions?

Slatter Michele Beer Andrew , Housing Evictions in South Australia: A Study of Bailiff-Assisted Evictions (Australian Centre for Community Services Research, Adelaide, 2003). For further details contact: Accsr@flinders.edu.au All the statistics quoted in this article are taken from the Report. The study was made possible by a University Industry Collaborative Research Grant, no 2001-0490, jointly supported by Flinders University and the South Australian Housing Trust. I would also like to acknowledge the invaluable contribution of our Research Assistant, Maria Scheffer, who was primarily responsible for collecting and collating the file data on which our Report is based.

We are currently designing and negotiating a second, parallel, study to focus on the experience of evictees.

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Household Investors in Rental Dwellings Australia, June 1997 (Cat No 8711.0 1998).

For a discussion of these initiatives, see Gale Anne , ‘Successful Tenancies: Stopping the Revolving Door’ (Paper presented at the Third National Homelessness Conference, Brisbane 6–8 April 2003) <www.afho.org.au/4_publications/conference_papers/Gale.pdf> at 29 September 2003.

National Housing Strategy, National Housing Strategy: Agenda for Action (1992) 32.

Roland Jane , Round my Place, 2000.

It is estimated that 46% of South Australia's Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) clients come directly or indirectly from tenancies. They may well not wait until the bailiffs appear but they are nevertheless not sustaining their tenancies: See Homeless People in SAAP: SAAP NDC Annual Report 2001–2 South Australia (SAAP National Data Collection Agency (NDCA) Report Series 7, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare cat no HOU 77, Melbourne, 2002) Table 8.1.

Galanter Marc , ‘Why the “Haves” Come Out Ahead: Speculation on the Limits of Legal Change’ (1974) 9 Law and Society Review 95.

Tenants Union of Victoria, Evictions 1988 (1988); Ramsay Jennifer , Early Intervention Pilot Project Final Report (Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation, Ottawa, 2000).

Ibid.

See Badcock Blair Beer Andrew , Home Truths, Property Ownership and Housing Wealth in Australia (2000) for an excellent overview of these changes, particularly in Chapter 8.

Hulse K Burke T , ‘Social Exclusion and the Private Rental Sector: The Experiences of Three Market Liberal Countries’ (Paper presented at the European Network on Housing Research 2000 Conference, Gävle, June 2000).

Burke T , ‘Housing and Poverty’ in Fincher R Nieuhenhuysen J , Australian Poverty: Then and Now (1998) 27.

Yates J Wulff M , ‘W(h)ither Low Cost Private Rental Housing?’, (2000) 18(1) Urban Policy and Research 45.

Baum Scott Wulff Maryann , Housing Aspirations of Australian Households: Positioning Paper (Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Melbourne, 2001) 5.

National Key Centre for Research and Teaching in Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems, Adelaide Drivers of Contemporary and Future Housing Demand in Adelaide and Outer Adelaide (Department of Human Services, Adelaide, 2000) 6.4.

For descriptions of strategies trialled by the Trust see Slatter Michele Crearie Mary , ‘Successful Tenancies: From Public to Private’ (2003) 7 Flinders Journal of Law Reform (forthcoming); Gale Anne , above n 4.

Chamberlain Chris Johnson Guy , Early Intervention: A Research Paper Prepared for the Victorian Homelessness Strategy (Department of Human Services, Melbourne, 2000); McBrearty Alison Bradley Lori-Anne , Voices: Experiences of Eviction in Ottawa (Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation, Ottawa, 2000); Phibbs Peter , ‘Housing Assistance and Non-housing Outcomes’ (Paper presented at the National Housing Conference, Brisbane, September 2001).