This AHURI Brief gives an overview of social housing renewal in Australia and looks at a range of factors that must be considered for housing renewal to be successful.

Traditionally, health and homelessness sectors have run as separate entities, leading to fragmented health care and inadequate support for people experiencing homelessness. But when COVID-19 hit, Australia’s health and homelessness services broke through traditional barriers and collaborated rapidly to protect 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.