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A National Housing and Homelessness Strategy with a comprehensive mission to ensure everyone in Australia has adequate housing would help Australia address its housing challenges, new AHURI research has confirmed. The research, ‘Towards an Australian Housing and Homelessness Strategy’, undertaken for AHURI by researchers from UNSW Sydney and RMIT University, investigates the rationale for an Australian Housing and Homelessness Strategy and sets out options for achieving such a Strategy.

On Wednesday 31 May, AHURI’s Professional Services team ran a National Housing First Policy Roundtable in Sydney. In attendance were policy makers from all Australian states and territories and the Commonwealth.

Australian developers of apartment buildings need to build sustainable buildings that appeal to the demands of a wider variety of longer term buyers, including owner occupiers, ‘Build-to-rent’ investors and social housing providers, new AHURI research has found.

The Melbourne Discussion Series panel discussion and networking event was well attended on Thursday 1 June by a diverse audience interested in how private sector projects are delivering social and affordable housing in Australia.

The Forum, comprising experts from a range of policy, planning and building professions, was announced in the 2023–24 Federal Budget to assist the Government to develop a comprehensive National Urban Policy and to deliver expertise into the formulation of cities and urban policy.