Baker, E.Beer, A.2011-03-292011-03-292007Applied Geography, 2007; 27(3-4):165-1800143-6228http://hdl.handle.net/2440/62873Governments increasingly seek to target public sector welfare expenditures to those most in need. In Australia, attention has increasingly focussed on the question of housing need: its conceptualisation, measurement, application to policy and expression across space. This paper reports on work undertaken by geographers for the Government of South Australia on the development of a workable model of housing need as a means of establishing priorities for public sector expenditure. The paper considers the problem of housing need and the challenges of developing and applying the multi-faceted concepts embedded within the notion of 'need'. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.enCopyright © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Housing needHousing affordabilitySpatial Decision Support SystemsPolicy researchJournal article002010374210.1016/j.apgeog.2007.07.0050002503179000032-s2.0-3454864259031905Baker, E. [0000-0002-9390-0491]