In this research paper, ASFA recommends that the Australian government commission a comprehensive, independent review of housing affordability, similar in nature to the Retirement Income Review, to establish a fact base and assess all relevant policy options.

This paper argues that the current housing systems prioritises the needs of investment funds and construction companies over the people and planet, and sets out a plan for the rethinking of housing as a common good.

This paper describes the large effects of planning restrictions on housing affordability. It then discusses various objections to this finding, and concludes with a discussion of policy options.

Policy-makers worldwide are grappling with how to make housing more affordable. Governments deploy a range of housing policy instruments to pursue the aims of housing affordability, ownership accessibility, and economic efficiency. The authors study four such instruments in this paper.

The aim in this paper is to provide a full description of housing prices and rents across Australia from 1980 to the first quarter 2023, along with some second quarter data, and an informed explanation of these prices and rents along with major outcomes for households.