Summary

Examining living arrangements or household composition of different CALD youth population groups allows us to understand how CALD youth live compared to their non-CALD counterparts. For newly arrived young people barriers such as lack of social capital or complex or competitive housing markets can complicate their access to long term appropriate housing. This is more important for some groups of CALD youth with young people from refugee backgrounds six to ten times more likely to be at risk of homelessness than Australian-born young people (Lawson and Dutertre 2010). This domain indicator sheds some light on the housing experiences and needs of all CALD youth.

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• Cornfoot, S, Francis, S., Multicultural Youth in Australia: Settlement and Transition, Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2007. Also available at http://www.cmy.net.au/sites/default/files/publication-documents/Multicultural%20Youth%20in%20Australia%202007.pdf. Details
• Hugo, G., McDougall, K., Tan, G., Feist, H., The CALD Youth Census Report 2014, Centre for Multicultural Youth, Carlton, Victoria., August 2014. Also available at http://cmy.net.au/publications/cald-youth-census-report-2014. Details
• Lawson, D, Dutertre, S., Finding Home in Victoria: Refugee and migrant young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, Centre for Multicultural Youth, Carlton, Victoria, 2010. Also available at http://www.cmy.net.au/sites/default/files/publication-documents/Finding%20home%20in%20victoria%202011.pdf. Details
• Office of Multicultural Interests Western Australia, "Not drowning, waving": Culturally and linguistically diverse young people at risk in Western Australia, Western Australia, 2009. Also available at http://www.omi.wa.gov.au/resources/clearinghouse/Not_Drowning.pdf. Details
• Olliff, L., Amplifying the voices of young refugees, Refugee Council of Australia, Refugee Council of Australia, Australia, 2009. Also available at https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/r/rpt/2009-Youth.pdf. Details
• Roberts, L., Culturally and linguistically diverse children and young people: A literature review, Commissioner for Children and Young People Werstern Australia, Perth, Western Australia, 2014. Also available at http://www.ccyp.wa.gov.au/files/Literature%20reviews/Literature%20review%20-%20CALD%20children%20and%20young%20people%20-%20Final.pdf. Details