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AHURI Conference to confront the challenges of renting
Across the nation rental vacancy rates are at historic lows, with consequential large increases in housing rents that are devastating people on low incomes. With Australians becoming more aware of how serious Australia’s rental crisis really is, the upcoming AHURI one day Conference ‘Renting in Australia - challenges and reforms’ is of timely importance.
What’s in the October 2022 Budget for housing?
The new Commonwealth Government Budget announced on Tuesday 25 October includes welcome commitments to affordable housing and new housing supply, in particular formalising housing policies that the Labor party took to the May 2022 election.
After more than two years of the pandemic, how is the Australian rental sector performing?
Rapid house price rises and reduced rental affordability have been the unforeseen consequences of the pandemic, and policy responses to date have been ineffective, according to new AHURI research.
Stimulating private sector development of social and affordable housing
No one sector can supply Australia’s needed social and affordable housing, increasingly it needs to be financed, developed and managed by partnerships of government, community-based and market providers, according to new AHURI research.
AHURI evaluates NSW Homelessness Industry and Workforce Development Strategy in NSW
Homelessness NSW has released its evaluation of the Homelessness Industry and Workforce Development Strategy 2017-2020, undertaken by AHURI’S Professional Services team. The evaluation has five key components: ‘Did the Strategy achieve its goals?’; ‘Did training and workforce development meet sector needs?’; ‘Are organisations across the NSW Homelessness Industry sustainable?’; ‘What needs to happen in the next Strategy?’; and ‘How competent are services in serving Aboriginal clients and communities?’