This research examines changes in the short-term rental accommodation (STRA) market in Australia. It explores landlords’ perceptions and the factors influencing their decisions to move properties into or out of the STRA market. Australia’s housing crisis has intensified pressure on policymakers to address the impact of STRA on housing affordability and availability.

The variety of policy problems, solutions and actors in the housing policy space makes organising housing policy challenging. This research explores how changes to government administrative structures and processes affect housing policy in Australia. It outlines what can be done to reduce some of the negative impacts of these changes.

This research investigates what is needed to lift the quality of Australian housing to align with international standards so as to address problems associated with aged and ill-performing housing stock in both the owned and rented sectors. It concludes that a national strategy to improve residential building quality should be developed and include regulatory mechanisms.

The energy efficiency of privately rented homes is poorer than that of owner-occupied homes in many countries across Europe, North America and Australasia. This is paper proposes that a wide range of psychological, dwelling-related, and situational factors influence landlords’ energy efficiency retrofit behaviour.