Stamp duty penalises homeowners that move. This note – the first in a two part series – illustrates its costs on people using data from the 2023 McKinnon Poll 'Understanding attitudes towards housing in Australia'.

To help more Australians access safe and affordable housing, the Australian government is developing a National Housing and Homelessness Plan. It has involved broad public consultation, which ran from 7 August 2023 to 30 November 2023, including with people with lived experience. This summary report outlines the main insights people shared during consultations.

This report contrasts the impact of Australian government housing policy over the last forty years, and unpacks why prioritising tax breaks for investors over expanding social housing has fuelled Australia’s housing crisis.

This paper attempts to build a coherent picture of Australia’s real federal housing budget, and to determine how government intervention in the housing market affects housing affordability and security.

This research studies the extent and patterns of spatial segregation by income bands and levels of neighbourhood deprivation across Australia’s five largest capital cities - Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.