Journal article
What is the (net) cost to Government of Homelessness Programs?
Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol.43(2), pp.231-254
2008
Abstract
Homelessness programs may improve the health, well‑being, financial security, labour market and housing outcomes of clients. This, in turn, may result in decreased utilisation of health and justice services, reduced child residential care costs, lower housing management costs, lower income support payments and higher revenue from increased income tax payments. When costed, such impacts represent whole‑of‑government savings or cost offsets to the provision of homelessness programs. This paper provides indicative estimates of the value of potential savings or cost offsets in two areas, namely, the health and justice fields from homelessness program interventions. Our key finding is that homelessness programs have the potential to save over twice the value of the capital and recurrent funding of homelessness programs on the basis of health and justice cost offsets alone.
Details
- Title
- What is the (net) cost to Government of Homelessness Programs?
- Authors/Creators
- K. Zaretzky (Author/Creator)P. Flatau (Author/Creator)M. Brady (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol.43(2), pp.231-254
- Publisher
- Australian Council of Social Service
- Number of pages
- 24
- Identifiers
- 991005540502007891
- Copyright
- Australian Council of Social Service
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Do not use- Former Murdoch Business School
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher URL
- http://www.acoss.org.au/
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