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When disasters strike, local governments are on the front line. This role needs stronger support.
When disasters strike, local governments play a crucial role in supporting affected communities, as they best understand the people and environments that have been harmed.
Rewriting the playbook: What happens when healthcare teams up with housing?
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.
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.
Landlords are key to rental housing stability. New research finds two very different investing behaviours.
New AHURI research reveals half of all rental properties are held for only 2 years or less, however nearly a third of all landlords retain a rental property for over 20 years.
This suggests there are at least two distinct investment strategies of landlords: short-term investors and long-term investors.