Research in progress
Explore our current research projects underway, examining a range of contemporary housing and urban policy questions. Current research priorities are determined in consultation with state/territory and federal government officials, industry and non-government experts.
A continued shift? Learnings from the public health response to COVID-19 and homelessness
While the number of people housed under the emergency accommodation has been the subject of evaluation, there has been no analysis of effect of public health responses to COVID-19 on homelessness support services, how these impacted upon people experiencing homelessness and the delivery of services to them, and most importantly, what was learned about preventing and intervening in homelessness from this period of rapid policy, service and practice innovation.
A fair rent? Facilitating residential tenancy determination through rental data analysis
Both social and mainstream media have highlighted an emergent housing crisis in the private rental system in part created by rental increases that have no relationship to tenant incomes.
A national roadmap for improving the building quality of Australian housing stock
Poor quality housing is swiftly coming to the fore of discussion in the Australian popular media, nongovernment organisation (NGO) advocacy programs and political messaging. Largely missing from this discussion, however, is sustained and productive debate on options for policy action.
Disruption in regional housing: Policy responses for more resilient markets
This project will map the actions governments can best take to ensure Australia’s regional housing markets can respond to the short, medium and long-term disruptions that affect them now and into the foreseeable future.
Evaluating machinery of government arrangements for housing policy administration
The allocation of responsibility for areas of public policy is often called 'machinery of government'. Housing policy in Australia has been governed by a variety of differently structured organisational units across the federal and state governments.