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.
Inquiry into projecting Australia’s urban and regional futures: population dynamics, regional mobility and planning responses
How can leading practice methods in projecting population growth and change be implemented across the diversity of Australian cities and regions?
Inquiry into supporting pathways in a social housing system
The Inquiry will develop an in-depth understanding of the prospects for transforming Australia’s straitened social housing sector into a system for socially supported housing pathways.
Insights into short stays: history, statistics and landlord perspectives
Short stay rental accommodation (STRA) impacts housing affordability, rental availability and amenity, particularly in capital cities and popular tourist regions. This project will examine how STRA has changed over time.
Modelling landlord behaviour and its impact on rental affordability: insights across two decades
The project will provide a much-needed and timely update to previous AHURI research that modelled factors shaping residential landlord behaviour between the period of 2001-2006. Since then, the housing market has been subject to landscape-changing shocks – in particular the global financial crisis (2008-2009) and the global C
Nothing about us, without us: Lived experience participation in housing and homelessness
This project aims to investigate how lived experience participation can inform housing and homelessness policy and service design. The involvement of people with lived experience (PWLE) is gaining traction in areas like mental health, disability, alcohol and other drugs and healthcare. While there is interest in, and some exploration of, lived experience perspectives emerging in housing and homelessness, the field remains relatively unexplored and more importantly, policy and practice frameworks are yet to be developed and tested.