This final Inquiry examines the challenges of financing to buy a first home. It incorporates four supporting Research Projects and focuses on socio-economic developments and policy settings that impact access...
This report provides an analysis of the available evidence on how Australia’s social security system supports people who are unable to work (or unable to secure adequate income through work) due to their...
This study is informed by the urban economics literature around agglomeration economies and housing. Employment density is frequently accompanied by higher housing costs. Thus, housing costs, in...
The research findings re-confirm that tenure insecurity in the private rental sector is a pressing policy issue that needs to be addressed, and that stamp duties act as a barrier to home purchase and labour...
Fines are used extensively in all Australian jurisdictions to address low-level lawbreaking. If ignored, fines automatically escalate into increased penalties and additional enforcement proceedings. Based...
This Discussion Paper, based on its findings, outlines 6 important policy proposals. It considers current measurement activity that is measuring current demand. Measures of existing demand are calculated...
There is rising interest in Australia’s regions and their potential role as population centres and drivers of new economic activity, heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic but also reflecting long-term concerns...
The Intergenerational Report projects an outlook for the economy and the Australian Government’s budget over the next 40 years. This outlook has been profoundly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has...
The COVID-19: Rental housing and homelessness impacts report shows the gains made on reducing homelessness during the pandemic in 2020 are slipping away. It shows less than a third of those assisted with...
This research examined the extent to which downsizing forms part of older Australians’ housing preferences, the actual and perceived benefits of moving as well as the availability of downsize housing...