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During the pandemic, over one-fifth (21%) of surveyed tenants felt that difficulties were piling up so high that they could not overcome them, compared to just 6 per cent of landlords according to new AHURI research.

The new report, ‘Policy coordination and housing outcomes during COVID-19’, led by researchers from Swinburne University of Technology analysed the scale and range of policy interventions in the housing system during the current pandemic—a critical first step for ongoing assessment of the outcomes and impacts of the initiatives deployed by governments.

New AHURI research, ‘Responding to the pandemic, can building homes rebuild Australia?’, undertaken by researchers from Curtin University, University of Sydney and University of Adelaide, assesses various ways the housing industry can help rebuild an Australian economy ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic.

One-third of low-income CRA households remain in rental housing stress (paying more than 30% of income in rent) even if all their CRA is put towards rent. At the same time, around one-fifth of low-income private rental households receive no CRA despite being in housing stress according to new research from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI).