Planning for a two tenure Australia

Australia is shifting to a two-tenure housing system where more people rent. This project will help governments and stakeholders to manage this shift – mapping the current and future tenure landscape, understanding rapidly changing preferences, providing a policy guide, and estimating costs and benefits of action and inaction.

The project will explore and provide guidance on tenure trends and projections, and investigate people’s stated and assumed tenure preferences and the pathways between tenures.

Four key questions will structure the research:

1. What are the short and long term tenure trends?
2. What are housing tenure preferences of Australia households now and over coming decades? What are the key components affecting decisions they make?
3. How could Australia’s policy and regulatory environment better support the revealed tenure preferences of contemporary and future Australians; and what is the role for an expanded, revised, or better aligned social housing sector in a dual tenure Australia?
4. What are the costs and benefits to the nation in policy reform that enables a better dual tenure housing system? 

The project will combine the methods from housing research, demography, behavioural economics, housing economics and policy to answer these questions and provide policy guidance. 

Lead Researcher: Professor Emma Baker, University of Adelaide

Project Number: 31309