Housing
Alternative labels
Residential building
Dwellings
Housing strategy
Briefing paper
Defining zero carbon homes for a climate resilient future
The Climateworks team undertook an extensive literature review of a range of academic and grey literature to examine existing definitions for zero carbon buildings. This information was collated and qualitatively examined to uncover key themes across the sources.
Policy report
A new form of housing supply for Australia: Build to Rent housing
This study, commissioned by the Property Council of Australia, shows that levelling the investment playing field and decreasing regulatory and other policy barriers for build-to-rent homes could deliver 150,000 new apartments and help address Australia’s stark housing affordability challenges.
Report
Housing affordability: experiences, attitudes, and appetite for change
The Australian Housing Monitor is a new, annual survey of public attitudes toward, and experiences of, housing. This report provides some of the headline results from the inaugural survey.
Report
Our home choices: how more housing options can make better use of Victoria’s existing infrastructure
This report shows more choice and housing diversity is needed to meet people’s needs as Victoria’s population grows. The report looks at how existing demand for housing in new greenfield suburbs can be shifted to established suburbs, closer to existing infrastructure such as schools, hospitals and public transport.
Report
Pathways to home ownership in an age of uncertainty
This research investigates how young households (aged 25–34) in Sydney and Perth are adapting their spending and saving behaviours and living arrangements in order to be able to buy a home.