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Ms Cunich has over 30 years’ experience in the business and property sectors and has been a member of AHURI’s Board since 2019. Jennifer has a very strong background in housing and planning, having been a former Non-Executive Director of the Victorian Planning Authority, CEO of the Australian   Institute of Architects and Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia.

The AHURI-HUD International Housing Policy Exchange highlighted the role of social and economic inequality in health outcomes. The participating countries all reported people with inadequate housing who lived in low socio-economic areas were disproportionately affected by the virus.

Economic growth and productivity in Australia’s largest capital cities appear to be slowing, with unaffordable housing and traffic congestion the main causes, according to new AHURI research. The report, ‘Relationships between metropolitan, satellite and regional city size, spatial context and economic productivity’ was undertaken by researchers from the University of Adelaide, Curtin University and the University of Glasgow (UK).

The COVID-19 pandemic and associated economic shocks had profound impacts on housing outcomes of many Australians and required rapid and large-scale interventions from different levels of government. The effectiveness of these interventions and the lessons to be learned are the focus of a newly funded AHURI priority research project.

AHURI is very pleased to announce that Dr Adam Crowe of Curtin University, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, has been awarded the 2021 AHURI Postdoctoral Fellowship to examine innovation in Australia’s private rental sector. The central aim of the research project is to identify and critically analyse innovative ways to improve tenure security within the private rental sector.