Private rental
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Private rental market
Report
Policy coordination and housing outcomes during COVID-19
This study gathered data on the scale and scope of policy interventions in the housing system during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia—a critical first step for on-going assessment of the outcomes and impacts of the broad suite of initiatives deployed by governments in response to the pandemic. It will help build a preliminary evidence base...
Report
Demand-side assistance in Australia’s rental housing market: exploring reform options
This research examines possible cost-effective reforms of Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA) that could improve housing outcomes for low-income renters.
Report
Older women in the private rental sector: unaffordable, substandard and insecure housing
Single older women aged 55 and over are over-represented amongst the asset poor in Australia and are one of the fastest growing groups of homeless people nationally. This report presents the experiences of single older women living on low incomes in the private rental sector within and around the Greater Sydney region.
Report
The experience of international students before and during COVID-19: housing, work, study and wellbeing
This report, drawing on two surveys, one conducted before and one during the COVID-19 pandemic, examines the circumstances of international students in the private rental sector in Sydney and Melbourne.
Media release
$1000 rent relief grants to further support residential tenants
South Australian residential tenants who are suffering significant financial hardship as a result of COVID-19 restrictions may now be eligible for rent relief through a $1000 grant to their landlords. Initiative: Rent relief through a $1000 grant to their landlords