The aim of this study is to develop a special purpose financial instrument, identified in this report as Housing Supply Bonds, to finance the supply of affordable rental housing in Australia.

The study involved interviewing a sample of 60 recently housed social housing tenants in three states. While not representative of the total population of social housing tenants in Australia, the qualitative analysis involved identified a number of common patterns across the states. These include the present need for more social housing, apparent barriers in the...

The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) and RMIT University co-hosted the inaugural Homelessness Research Conference in Melbourne, 19-20 April 2012.

This essay argues that real house prices are being pushed up to levels which require buyers to take on large amounts of debt that are repaid later in the life course. As a result Australian home buyers are exposed to higher levels of credit risk for longer periods of their lives, as evidenced by growing...

Current policies for increasing the supply of affordable housing in Australia envisage a greatly increased role for community housing organisations (CHOs), including as a provider of housing for homeless people. Data from the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare indicate that in the year to June 2008 around 36 per cent of new CHO allocations...