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When population movements happen, due to rising housing unaffordability, or as occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, it can impact on house prices with a ripple effect on multiple housing submarkets, new AHURI research has confirmed.

Understanding where populations will change in the future through using population projection models is key for governments and providers of housing, infrastructure and services to be able to plan where they will prioritise resources. However, ensuring such models are accurate means recognising their underlying assumptions, data and potential for error.

The 2024 Federal Budget (on Tuesday 14 May 2024) announced a number of funding measures targeted to the housing and homelessness sectors, as well as confirming previous funding and policy actions. In this Budget the Government champions its ongoing $32 billion plan to help deliver more homes, including $6.2 billion of new initiatives.

Moving the social housing sector to an outcomes-based funding model will require standardised tools to be developed for measuring and evaluating complex housing services, new AHURI research has found.

Representatives from a range of sectors from across the country met in Sydney and virtually on Thursday 9th May for the AHURI one day conference Circular economy housing, to explore what it will take for the Australian housing sector to make the shift toward reducing the significant carbon emissions generated throughout the life-cycle of Australian homes.