This report contrasts the impact of Australian government housing policy over the last forty years, and unpacks why prioritising tax breaks for investors over expanding social housing has fuelled Australia’s housing crisis.

This paper attempts to build a coherent picture of Australia’s real federal housing budget, and to determine how government intervention in the housing market affects housing affordability and security.

This research investigates the key links between housing and poverty. Its purpose is to draw together different dimensions of the relationships between housing costs and poverty, including policy settings, tax and transfer systems, housing assistance and place-based dimensions and individual capabilities.

This letter provides the Minister for Women with a list of specific and urgent recommendations which could significantly enhance women’s economic opportunities and address entrenched gender norms for consideration in the 2023 Federal Budget.

This paper explores how and whether Commonwealth Rent Assistance is delivering on its aim, which is to alleviate rental stress for people on the lowest incomes.