This final inquiry report examines the challenges of financing to buy a first home. It incorporates four supporting research projects and focuses on socio-economic developments and policy settings that impact access to home ownership.

This report focuses on what can be done to increase the supply of rental dwellings in Australia via institutional investment.

This paper puts Sydney’s housing challenge in an economic context by scanning current international evidence and case studies from other global cities experiencing the same challenge.

This report explores the experiences of community members navigating Australia’s housing system, and the organisations who support them.

This report analyses the economic constraints on people’s ability to buy a home in Australia over the four decades from the early 1980s. It also examines how home ownership has evolved over time; considers demand subsidies provided to first homebuyers; and examines the support from other family for first homebuyers.