Housing stress is only weakly linked with indicators of wellbeing such as health and financial stress. Alternative, narrower measures of housing affordability are needed to better quantify household affordability problems and thus better inform policy formulation in Australia. Key points:

Summary: This project provided policy-makers with an understanding of the complexity of property finance, its role in the supply of all housing types and tenures and the impact of the Global Financial Crisis on property lending. Description The researchers interviewed property developers and financiers in Western Australia, New South Wales and Victoria who were involved...

Housing stress measures (using the 30/40 rule) have been criticized in terms of their usefulness for housing policy decision making. One criticism is that some in housing stress do not experience adverse effects on wellbeing. Another is that householders might, by choice, face housing stress in order to access appropriately sized or better quality housing...

The outcome of the project is a list of recommendations designed to increase the supply of appropriate, diverse and affordable housing through infill development.

This study addresses the question posed in the 2009 AHURI Research Agenda: how do the drivers of supply and demand for housing in regional and rural centres affect the supply of affordable housing?