Affordable Housing
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This article shapes an introductory advocacy framework for social workers striving to achieve the right to adequate housing for all in the Australian disaster recovery context. Social work human rights–based practice, leveraging upon the human right to adequate housing, is critical for improving the wellbeing of those impacted by disaster.
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In State of the Housing System 2025, the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council (NHSAC or ‘the Council’) presents a sobering view of Australia’s housing system. The deterioration of housing affordability and low levels of new housing supply in 2024 are particularly stark reminders that Australia is still very much in a housing crisis that has been decades in the making.
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This paper identifies the strategic repositioning of powerful media as influential players in housing finance in a financialised yet weakly-regulated environment, through a study of a mortgage portal embedded in Australia’s predominant property platform, realestate.com.au.
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A high-level policy and case study review from three nations (England, Scotland, Germany) on providing affordable homes to renters by necessity.
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This report presents findings from the third wave of the 2025 Election Monitoring Survey Series, conducted during the first fortnight of the 2025 federal election campaign. It includes novel questions on housing policy and supply-side liberalism.
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The research looks at what motivates small-scale landlords to buy, sell or retain their rental properties. The research finds two very different investing behaviours.
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This report examines the impact of stagnating wage growth on the ability of young Australians to achieve home ownership between 2012 and 2022, a period the authors term “The Lost Decade.”
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In this paper, we look at how prototyping is being used to address housing affordability in two ways: to prototype affordable housing policy, and to enable affordable housing provision.
