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Implications of tenant data collection in housing: Protecting Australian renters
This research explores how property technology is used in Australia’s private and social rental sectors and examines the implications of this for individuals and housing access, and whether existing policy and legal frameworks are fit-for-purpose.
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Breaking the mould? How do policymakers learn from public housing estate renewal in a multi-actor environment?
The global housing affordability ‘crisis’ highlights a policy failure shared across many jurisdictions and countries: a disconnect between the affordability challenge and capacity to act. The article draws on a series of stakeholder interviews involved in the design and delivery of public housing estate renewal in Australia.
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Autonomous AI agents for real-time affordable housing site selection: Multi-objective reinforcement learning under regulatory constraints
This paper presents Autonomous Urban Resource Al locator (AURA), a novel multi-agent reinforcement learning system for real-time affordable housing site selection under hard regulatory constraints.
American Journal of student Research
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Mental health In homelessness: A global health crisis
Homelessness and mental illness reinforce each other through a cyclical relationship, and addressing this crisis requires integrated, housing‑centered interventions.
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The effects of subsidies and regulatory contexts on precarious housing among low-income renters: A cross-national comparison
This study examines the extent to which housing allowances and social housing protect against housing precarity experienced by low-income renters using Australian and UK data.
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Project Daffodil: Building emotional financial literacy to reduce homelessness risks in older women
Older women are the fastest-growing group at risk of homelessness in Australia, with financial avoidance behaviours amplifying this risk. Between 2023 and 2024, Sefa, Latitude, and Housing Choices, researched these behaviours and piloted a low cost, high-reach social media intervention using the COM-B and transtheoretical models to prompt recognition, reflection, and action.
Health & Justice
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Improving access to healthcare services for people experiencing homelessness: Evidence from a scoping review of interventions
This research aims to answer the question “which types of interventions support access to care for people experiencing homelessness?” and thus provide evidence on the types of interventions that foster access to healthcare services for people experiencing homelessness.
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Demystifying the rental vacancy rate measure: a critical review and policy implications
This research is the first critical analysis of the Australian private rental vacancy rate (RVR) — an important, but often unquestioned, housing market signal. It investigates the different methodologies, strengths and limitations of the measure, and how it is used and interpreted.
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