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Stimulating the housing industry: Limitations of the public housebuilding panacea
This AHURI COVID-19 research project is led by Professor Steven Rowley, Curtin University, with significant inputs from the University of Adelaide. Its focus is on the fact that the housing industry has long been held up as an ideal mechanism for delivering economic stimulus in periods of economic crisis. The project asks what policies are most effective in utilising the industry, does the industry actually have the capacity to respond and what form should this response take?
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Renting in the time of COVID-19: understanding the impacts
The economic downturn resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has placed many in the rental market at risk; they face uncertainty, tenure insecurity and financial hardship. Guided by the needs of policy, this AHURI COVID-19 research project led by Professor Emma Baker rapidly generates a nationwide dataset and essential reporting on the impact of COVID-19 on tenants.
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Supporting Australia’s housing system: modelling pandemic policy responses
This new AHURI funded project has been funded under AHURI’s special COVID-19 responses funding round. The project is led by Professor Chris Leishman and will deliver the rapid redevelopment of economic / housing system modelling approaches to provide deep policy insights into COVID-19 housing interventions, focussing on impacts to employment, earnings, and outcomes for owners, renters and investors. The economic simulation model will simulate the probable impacts of three principal policy interventions.
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More Different Futures Network
Professor Chris Leishman has joined a new international research network in which Professor Duncan Maclennan (University of Glasgow) explores COVID-19 housing recovery policies and innovation across the UK, Canada and Australia. More information can be found in this summary document.
Rebuilding Australia’s economy
A major AHURI funded inquiry into Population, Migration and Productivity focuses on one of Australia’s most pressing current policy problems. With individual projects due to report in August this year, and an overall Inquiry report by the end of the year, this research will uncover robust statistical evidence on the connections between population change, inter-state and net overseas migration, housing costs and economic productivity. More information can be found on the AHURI web pages.
South Australia's Multicultural Story
An interactive story map developed by the Hugo Centre in collaboration with Multicultural Affairs, Department of the Premier and Cabinet South Australia has recently been published which interactively explores the post World War II history of migration to South Australia and the characteristics of the migrants who have made South Australia their home.
Assisting Older People at Risk of Homelessness
In late December 2015, Housing for the Aged Action Group (HAAG), in partnership with CHURP, was successful in our funding submission to The Wicking Trust to run an Australia-wide project called The Older Persons Homelessness Prevention Project.
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Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) awarded major funding
Congratulations to the team at the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) for securing research funding for seven different projects!
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Modelling housing need in Australia to 2025
The simulation indicates the affordable housing supply necessary to meet the broad housing needs (not individual) of those households unable to access market housing (ownership or rental) and also quantifies those able to access the private rental market but placed under financial stress in order to do so.
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South Australia's Housing Assets
This project has been an audit of South Australia’s housing assets undertaken by AHURI and South Australia Housing Trust.
