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New National Urban Policy open for consultation
AHURI welcomes increasing attention by the Australian government on urban policy. The Federal Government has been working with the Urban Policy Forum to develop a comprehensive and targeted National Urban Policy, and is now inviting submissions and feedback from organisations and individuals.
Tracking future population changes requires a range of estimation methods
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.
Ripple effect: Population changes impact house prices near and far
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.
What’s in the 2024 Budget for housing and homelessness?
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.
Social housing sector requires better support to enable outcomes-based funding
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.