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Australia’s Commonwealth, State and Territory Housing and Homelessness Ministers met in Adelaide recently to discuss a range of issues, including affordable housing; the new housing and homelessness agreement in the Commonwealth Government’s 2017–18 Budget; and remote housing.

A new AHURI study has found that people who own or are paying off their home move less often than people who are renting privately, and this reduced mobility reduces their ability to respond to adverse labour market shocks (such as being made redundant) and may lead to higher rates of unemployment.

As part of the 2017-18 Budget, the Treasurer Scott Morrison has announced the creation of an affordable housing bond aggregator, the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation (NHFIC), to raise money at lower rates from the wholesale bond market for not-for-profit community housing providers.

New research from AHURI finds that Australia’s homelessness services are overwhelmingly unable to meet client demand and that additional funding models are needed to address the critical unmet need for housing and homelessness services.

In an exciting first, AHURI and researchers from University of NSW, RMIT University, University of Tasmania and Swinburne University have released findings from the AHURI Inquiry ‘Affordable housing industry capacity’ in an easy-to-understand visual report. The research advances our understanding of Australia’s affordable housing industry and its capacity to expand.