Financing first home ownership: modelling policy impacts at market and individual levels
Nearly nine in ten aspiring first home buyers are locked out of home ownership due to borrowing constraints.
Rental Housing in WA: Ten ideas to address the rental crisis
It is the seventeenth report in the BCEC Focus on WA report series. This research looks at overall affordability and where key pressures are.
Housing Affordability in WA 2023: Building for the future
It is the seventeenth report in the BCEC Focus on WA report series. This research looks at overall affordability and where key pressures are.
Sustainable social housing retrofit? Circular economy and tenant trade-offs
Retrofit and quality improvements that are undertaken with a short term focus, based on whatever funding or opportunities are available.
Anglicare WA: Rental Affordability Snapshot
There were 2,912 private rentals available in WA on 17/18 March 2023.
Priced Out: An Index of Affordable Rentals for Australia’s Essential Workers
The findings help explain why so many essential industries are facing workforce shortages. Workers have been priced out of their communities.
State of the Nation’s Housing 2022–23
From 2023 to 2032, household formation is expected to be dominated by lone person households (563,600 additional households), followed by couples with children households (533,300 additional households).
Pathways to home ownership in an age of uncertainty
In Perth it was still possible for some to buy without assistance, however many still benefited from direct and indirect help.
Sweaty and Stressed: Renting in an Australian Summer
Energy debt is a fact of life for a growing number of renters, who simply cannot afford to maintain a healthy home temperature on a limited income.
Innovations in stock matching and allocations
The research reviewed international and Australian policy, interviewed stakeholders across four jurisdictions.
2022 Sustainable Funding Survey
WACOSS and CEWA, with support from other peaks, undertook a survey of member organisations in October 2022.
A Stark Reality
The stark reality of the housing crisis in Australiademands a reinvigorated look at housing policy.
Quantifying Australia’s unmet housing need: Regional Snapshots
Estimates based on the 2021 Australian census indicate that over half a million low-income households were not in appropriate housing on census night.
Report on Government Services 2023
The Australian Government share of this expenditure was $1.7 billion in 2021‑22.
Helping people in need during a cost-of-living crisis
57 per cent of participants said access to affordable housing, or homelessness, affected their service users and communities.
Predicting risk to inform housing policy and practice
The resulting ‘housing shocks’ can include inability to afford rent or mortgage payments; eviction; overcrowding; or housing precarity.
