South Australian housing trust tenant survey, 1982

The objectives of the research are: to assess the impact of recent and future rent increases on public housing tenants; to identify factors influencing the socio-economic characteristics of public housing areas, and to assess the impact of recent and future rent increases on these characteristics; to identify the factors influencing movement into and out of public housing and to assess the relative importance of recent and future rent increases amongst these factors; to assess the financial implications of recent and future rent increases for housing authorities; and to consider the likely effect of market rent policies both in relation to the objectives of the 1978 and 1981 Commonwealth-State Housing Agreements and in relation to changes in the role of public housing. Topics covered in the stayers and leavers household file include: present tenancy and tenancy history, level of satisfaction/ dissatisfaction with SAHT accommodation, household income and expenditure information (including gross and net incomes of head of household and other household members; amount of rent paid weekly; use of rent reduction scheme; effect of rent increases on household budget; number of cars owned and the cost of repayment, insurance and registration; debts and other regular weekly costs; cost of health insurance, electricity, gas, telephone and superannuation or retirement benefits; total of money held in banks or other financial institutions; and total value of any other investments), and information about the stayers and leavers (including reasons for either staying or leaving, expectations for future housing and its cost, financing, and preferred location). The stayers and leavers person file contains background variables which include age, sex, marital status, relation to head of household, country of birth, number of years as a resident of Australia (if born overseas), occupation status, occupation and length of employment or previous occupation and number of months since last employed. Information collected for the Trust records file includes: age, sex, occupational status, occupation, number of persons in household, number of Trust dwellings that the respondent has occupied, gross weekly income, weekly rent, whether receiving rent reduction, and reason for vacating.