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What is social housing renewal and how can it be done well for tenants?
What is social housing renewal?
Social housing renewal is more than just fixing up old homes. It happens when old social housing estates and large building complexes are knocked down. They are replaced with new, modern homes. These new homes have benefits for social housing tenants and governments.
Social housing is completely overstretched. Re-imagining the system could support more people.
With the cost of living crisis and rising rents across Australia there is growing recognition of the need for social housing to help even more people. Although governments provide subsidised homes to 423,000 vulnerable and low income households, the demand is outstripping supply.
When governments reshuffle, housing policy can suffer. Here’s how to keep housing policy on track.
When governments change, either because of election results or from political restructures, the make up of government departments also change.
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14 - 16 October 2025
Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre
National Housing Conference 2025
The National Housing Conference (NHC) has been staged in partnership between state and territory governments and AHURI for 25 years. Convened every two years and attracting over 1,000 delegates, it is the largest housing conference in Australasia.
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