This research provides a critical analysis of the Australian private rental vacancy rate (RVR) – an important housing market signal. It investigates the different methodologies, strengths and limitations of the measure, and how it is used and interpreted. This research presents a detailed examination of RVR to better inform decision-making in public and private sectors.

Homelessness has grown in the suburbs of Australian capital cities, with more than 60 per cent of those experiencing homelessness at the 2021 Census found in Australia’s capital cities (up from around 48 per cent in 2001). This research investigates the changing geography of homelessness in Australia from 2001 to 2021 and the role of...

This report provides a unique point-in-time analysis of how the global health crisis of COVID-19 and policy and population responses temporarily altered the long-run structural trajectory of the private rental sector in Australia.

This research seeks to inform improved housing and homelessness responses to gendered housing experiences, and to explicitly broaden the ways to conceptualise and engage with gender in housing policy, research, and data collection and analysis.

This report refocuses attention on systemic challenges within Australia's housing system that underpin the increasing burden of housing insecurity and, in some cases, homelessness, borne by people living in Australia as they age.