The key aim of this project carried out by Terry Burke and Robin Zhakarov was to develop a small number of scenarios about the nature of Australia's housing system at a specified future date. As such, the project involved the development of a significant exercise in strategic foresight about alternative futures for Australia's housing, the...

This research set out to establish an evidence base around public and private sector rental evictions in Australia that will assist in the formulation of policies and strategies that reduce the cost burden of evictions on housing providers and managers.

This report traverses some difficult and complex issues: rent, rental systems, social housing finance systems, the objective of social housing, affordability, equity, financial viability and work disincentives. Sean McNelis not only discusses these issues in themselves but more importantly, relates them to one another.

National Research Venture - Housing Affordability for Lower-Income Australians The focus of this report by Mike Berry is on the key economic effects of problems associated with housing affordability. The basic aim is to provide a broader-than-normal rationale for, and a basis on which to develop, policies designed to improve affordability outcomes. Housing affordability is...

Up until 2001 there was little direct evidence that housing affordability problems were heightening labour shortages, as low-income jobs moved to low cost suburbs, and those jobs in the inner city - such as hospitality or retail jobs - were filled by young people who were more likely to share housing costs in group households...