Policy

This study investigates the impacts, challenges, and opportunities presented by recent global events on the Australian construction sector and its supply chains, and seeks to offer valuable guidance for policymakers, industry stakeholders, and researchers while navigating the current landscape.
This study reveals a “vulnerability trap” for low-income households and a “resilience divide” favoring affluent buyers, underscoring the need for distribution-sensitive climate adaptation housing policies.
This research looked at ways seasonal and vulnerable workers in regional Australia can be better housed.
Regional Australia relies on a skilled and unskilled labour force, in part through migration schemes, to remain economically competitive. Regional workers are diverse and have diverse housing needs. This report develops an evidence-based policy framework for accommodating seasonal and vulnerable workers in regional areas to ensure a healthy, safe and productive workforce.
This research helps to understand how effective CRA is at reducing disadvantage and improving wellbeing, and also shows how these effects pass to children of households that receive CRA.
This research explores concentrations and density of social housing relative to local amenities and services across Australia. Key findings found that social housing is not spread evenly across cities and towns.
An address to the Chifley Research Centre by The Hon. Dr Andrew Leigh MP, focusing in part on the housing affordability crisis.
This research report is the final report of this AHURI inquiry into housing policy and disasters.