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Movement to regional Australia is a long term trend – and it’s not the people you thought who are moving
People migrating out of Australia’s cities to live in regional areas is a long term trend, predating the impacts of COVID by nearly a decade.
Celebrating excellence in housing research
The AHURI research team recently attended the Australasian Housing Researchers Conference held in Sydney, to connect with the housing research sector and consider potential housing futures.
More natural disasters mean Government housing policies need to adapt
Natural disasters like floods, fires and cyclones already destroy many Australian homes, and climate change will make this worse. Two new AHURI research reports examine how government housing policies can better prepare for natural disasters, and how governments can share housing data to lower disaster risks.
First Nations Housing Crisis: major study reveals huge gap for affordable rental housing
One in eight Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander households across Australia faced unmet housing needs in 2021, according to groundbreaking AHURI research. The study marks the first comprehensive review of First Nations housing governance, resources and regulation in Australia, and provides an up-to-date assessment of their unmet housing needs.
Better practices required for people with lived experience of homelessness to be heard
Over the last two decades, governments and service providers have come to expect that people with lived experience of homelessness should participate in and influence homelessness policy design and practice.