This research investigates a range of short-term rental accommodation (STRA) models across Australia and their impacts on housing markets and communities. It identifies the policy responses most likely to resolve the competing demands for short- and long-term rental housing. Understanding STRA models, provider motivations, and impacts is key to effective policy development and regulation.

This report investigates racism in Victoria’s rental housing system and how it affects the health and wellbeing of renters from culturally and linguistically diverse communities. The study documents racism at every stage of the rental journey: searching, applying, living in and exiting a tenancy. Experiences include being denied housing or steered away from certain areas.

This research explores how property technology (PropTech) is used in Australia’s private and social rental sectors to collect and process applicant and tenant personal information. It examines the implications of this for individuals and housing access, and whether existing policy and legal frameworks are fit-for-purpose.

This research examined Australia’s multi-provider social housing system and analysed changes over time to social housing delivery. It finds Australia lacks long-term, sustainable social housing growth models and the report offers policymakers options to reverse the decline.

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.