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2019 marks 20 years of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) Limited. In 1999, joint funding commitments from the Australian and all state and territory governments established the National Housing Research Program and AHURI Limited – the independent, not-for-profit company at the centre of AHURI’s national network of policy makers, university and industry partners.

AHURI and Mind Australia are pleased to release first report from a national study into the housing and mental health pathways of people with lived experience of mental ill-health. This report gathers existing evidence from both local and international sources, and analyses mental health and housing programs and models; policy levers and system level drivers relating to housing, mental health and homelessness.

AHURI has released the research topics for the 2020 National Housing Research Program (NHRP) agenda which will contribute to the growing evidence-base in the housing, homelessness, cities, urban policy fields.

The 2019–20 Federal Budget was recently announced and includes the following measures relating to housing and homelessness.

AHURI has awarded researchers from Curtin University and the University of Tasmania at the recent Australasian Housing Researchers Conference, held in Adelaide. Respected academic Professor Rachel Ong ViforJ, Professor of Economics at the School of Economics, Finance and Property, Curtin University, was awarded the Professor Mike Berry Award for Excellence in Housing Research.