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This report presents the results of a survey of 1,019 people who rent privately in Australia and places the results of that survey into the context of the overall private rental sector. Across most of the issues we asked about, renters in disadvantaged groups are doing worse.
This report aims to inform the ongoing discussion of rental housing policy with new evidence about the experience of renting in the Australian PRS. A collaboration of National Shelter, NARO, and the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS)/UNSW Sydney led Poverty and Inequality Partnership, the report (i) analyses the PRS market context and (ii) presents findings from a national survey of PRS renters.

The Report on Government Services (RoGS) provides information on the equity, effectiveness and efficiency of government services in Australia. The…

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.
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.
Evidence-based design, common in healthcare, can improve Social Housing Projects quality by integrating evidence into design processes, but its use is limited. A literature review also identified tools to align design decisions with user needs.
The third issue of Priced Out examines the incomes of people earning between $40,000 through to $130,000 to see how much of their income they would need to spend to rent a typical unit across regional areas and capital cities.
This paper investigates the causal effect of income inequality on housing affordability in 35 OECD countries from 2000 to 2021.