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Safe and affordable housing is central to the security and dignity of all Australians. However, Australia is experiencing significant housing challenges. The government is taking a national leadershi...
Safe and affordable housing is central to the security and dignity of all Australians. However, Australia is experiencing significant housing challenges.
The government is taking a national leadership role by implementing a range of measures to address Australia’s housing challenges, with a focus on helping those most in need.
The government is also partnering with all tiers of government, the private sector and the not for profit sector to increase the supply of safe, secure and affordable housing.
The Treasury supports the government’s housing agenda by providing advice and analysis across a range of housing related issues, including housing supply and affordability.

The Australian Government has agreed to a National Housing Accord (Accord) with states and territories, local government, institutional investors and the construction sector.

The Social Housing Accelerator payment was delivered to the states and territories in June 2023 so they could start investing in building new homes straight away.
This investment will:
• create around 4,000 homes for Australians on social housing waiting lists
• permanently increase the stock of social housing.
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In Australia, you are not required to work with a professional when designing most residential structures. Here, the main consideration is whether the proposed structure complies with local planning r...
In Australia, you are not required to work with a professional when designing most residential structures. Here, the main consideration is whether the proposed structure complies with local planning requirements. If it does, it does not matter who was responsible for developing the design.

You can choose between engaging an architect, working with a building designer, or choosing a design and build builder. Each of these options has its benefits and can deliver a high-quality, bespoke home.
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Transitional housing is an important form of housing assistance within Australia’s housing system. Transitional housing is for people with an urgent need for housing, typically people who are experien...
Transitional housing is an important form of housing assistance within Australia’s housing system. Transitional housing is for people with an urgent need for housing, typically people who are experiencing homelessness or have a very high risk of homelessness.

Appropriate short to medium term housing, along with tailored support services, helps people to stabilise their lives before moving into longer term housing.

As part of a transitional housing tenancy agreement, tenants are engaged with specialist homelessness services or support providers who will help develop a case plan to assist them to move forward and access suitable long-term secure and affordable housing. That may include connecting tenants to other services to help them get back on their feet and into training or employment.

Homelessness is a growing issue in Australia. If you don’t have access to conventional shelter, especially at night, or are couch surfing with friends, or living with violence in your home and needing to leave, you may be considered to be homeless.
There are many causes of homelessness. It can be anything from escaping from a troubled relationship or a situation that is violent to unemployment, to relationship breakdown.
There are many programs in Australia that aim to relieve homelessness. The services include advice, financial support and temporary accommodation.
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Social housing is government subsidised short and long-term rental housing. In Australia in recent decades, it has mainly been available to people on very low incomes, and who often have experienced h...
Social housing is government subsidised short and long-term rental housing. In Australia in recent decades, it has mainly been available to people on very low incomes, and who often have experienced homelessness, family violence or have other complex needs.

Social housing is made up of two types of housing:
public housing, which is owned and managed by State and Territory Governments, and
community housing, which is managed (and often owned) by not-for-profit organisations.

Social housing differs from private rental in that housing is allocated according to need, rather than by households competing in a market, and from emergency accommodation in that it provides longer term and secure rental housing.
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This event will be held consecutively over three venues in two countries. It begins with a Volcanic Youth Camp at Ijen UNESCO Global Geopark in East Java (1-2 July), followed by the main event at Rinj...
This event will be held consecutively over three venues in two countries. It begins with a Volcanic Youth Camp at Ijen UNESCO Global Geopark in East Java (1-2 July), followed by the main event at Rinjani-Lombok UNESCO Global Geopark Lombok (4-6 July), and concluding with a one-day workshop at The University of Sydney, Australia (18 July). The workshop will be accompanied by field trips, principally to be organised on 19 July. The workshop, to be addressed by invited speakers from both Indonesia and Australia, will focus on topics relevant to volcanic geotourism destinations.
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In 2005, a meeting of Australian Housing, Local Government and Planning Ministers had described affordable housing as ‘housing which is affordable for low and moderate income households across home ow...
In 2005, a meeting of Australian Housing, Local Government and Planning Ministers had described affordable housing as ‘housing which is affordable for low and moderate income households across home ownership, private rental as well as public rental tenures … The benchmark for affordability is 25 to 30 per cent of the income of these target groups.’

The now discontinued National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) considered affordable housing as having rents lower than the prevailing local market rate, with the Scheme capping rents at 20 per cent below market rates to eligible tenants for a 10-year period.

While this was a welcome form of assistance, depending on location, the reduced rents were not always 'affordable' in absolute terms. In higher rent regions (such as capital cities and some regional coastal cities) low-income households receiving such assistance to make their housing ‘affordable’ could still be in housing affordability stress (i.e. paying more than 30% of income in housing costs). In other words, housing may be considered affordable when compared to the market rent, but it may not be affordable relative to the residents’ income.

In such areas affordable housing schemes may operate as a way to support rental housing for key workers (usually people working in lower paid, but key civic jobs such as police, health and education workers), rather than delivering housing that is affordable to very low and low-income households.
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Residential aged care is for senior Australians who can no longer live in their own home. It includes accommodation and personal care 24 hours a day, as well as access to nursing and general health ca...
Residential aged care is for senior Australians who can no longer live in their own home. It includes accommodation and personal care 24 hours a day, as well as access to nursing and general health care services. We subsidise aged care homes to provide residential care to eligible people.

Retirement villages and residential aged care facilities are designed for people at different stages of life and with very different needs.

Retirement villages are made up of private homes and usually offer a range of shared facilities for recreation and relaxation, including pools, community centres, gymnasiums and sports facilities such as bowling greens or tennis courts. They often also have spaces for doctors, physiotherapists, hairdressers and other ‘come to you’ services.

Unlike retirement villages where you may or may not require additional care or support, residential aged care provides accommodation, health care and support services to seniors requiring round-the-clock supervision and assistance.
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Although the housing situation of First Nations people has improved – for example with rises in home ownership and falling levels of homelessness – it has been recognised that First Nations people hav...
Although the housing situation of First Nations people has improved – for example with rises in home ownership and falling levels of homelessness – it has been recognised that First Nations people have significantly less access to affordable, secure and quality housing (AIHW 2019a; AIHW and NIAA 2020). As such, governments are increasingly targeting housing as an essential policy area for improving the health and wellbeing of First Nations people.
This page focuses on housing tenure (including ownership, rental, and social housing), housing affordability, housing assistance, housing quality (including facilities and structural soundness) and overcrowding. It also looks at homelessness and the use of relevant services by First Nations people.

With around 60 per cent of Indigenous Australians living in rental accommodation (compared to around 30 per cent of non-Indigenous Australians who rent) understanding what makes Indigenous tenancies work successfully is vital, new AHURI research has confirmed.

We identified that cultural differences between the way Indigenous and Western families use housing were not adequately accounted for in rental housing service provision and tenancy agreements,’ says Dr Moskos. ‘For example, the traditional responsibilities of Indigenous tenants to house extended family members when needed can conflict with the expectations of landlords around visitors and overcrowding, and thus threaten tenancy arrangements.’
Issues around communication and the ability of tenants to understand the implications of their tenancy agreements were also highlighted.
To find ‘what worked’, the research looked closely at three case studies in different regions of Australia and identified some common factors in successful tenancies:
• the way that services were delivered; central to this was the importance of having the correct policy settings that supported the programs in prioritising and responding to the circumstances of individual tenants was highlighted
• the staffing of the programs; having the right staff was a vital component of the success of the case-study programs. Staff with previous experience in community housing were considered to be valuable, as well as those who were willing to spend time with tenants and be flexible in the delivery of services to deliver positive housing and non-housing outcomes.
• linkages with other service providers (e.g. broader health and community services) enabled a joined-up approach to service delivery.
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People across regional Australia should have the same access to housing and supports as any other location.

Discussion, sharing and collaboration on solutions to regional housing.
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Adelaide is rapidly becoming the centre of future industries, including defence, space, advanced manufacturing and digital - machine learning and artificial intelligence, cyber and creative industries...
Adelaide is rapidly becoming the centre of future industries, including defence, space, advanced manufacturing and digital - machine learning and artificial intelligence, cyber and creative industries.

The Northern Adelaide Food Park will include food manufacturers and food processing businesses, together with food packaging, storage and logistics companies. Companies will be given the opportunity to establish in a dedicated food precinct with access to infrastructure and services on the one site.

Adelaide Innovation Strategy for economic growth and enhanced linkages between key innovation precincts, including Lot Fourteen, Technology Park Adelaide, Mawson Lakes, Osborne Naval Shipyard, Edinburgh Defence Precinct, the Waite Research Precinct and Tonsley Innovation District.

The Australian Government has invested $26 million to establish the Australian Space Agency, which will be headquartered at Lot Fourteen.
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Good urban planning can help reduce Greater Adelaide’s greenhouse gas emissions and better equip us to cope with the impacts of climate change. Adelaide is vulnerable to changes in the temperature...
Good urban planning can help reduce Greater Adelaide’s greenhouse gas emissions and better equip us to cope with the impacts of climate change.

Adelaide is vulnerable to changes in the temperature, extreme weather events, sea level rise, and associated storm surges. Greater Adelaide’s future prosperity and liveability will depend on how effectively we address and respond to the impacts of climate change.

Promoting a more compact urban form (through locating jobs and housing closer to public transport to reduce car travel) will play a critical role in reducing the growth of greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, creating environments that are green and cooling will make Greater Adelaide more liveable in a warmer climate, hotter temperatures and extreme weather conditions.

Greater Adelaide has exposure risks to several natural hazards including bushfires, floods, landslides, earthquakes and extreme weather. These are likely to increase in regularity and severity with the changing global climate.

The Adelaide Botanic Garden Wetland is located on First Creek, a highly urbanised waterway near the centre of Adelaide. The wetland ameliorates flooding, purifies polluted stormwater runoff, is the source for an Aquifer Storage and Recovery system, provides habitat, and is an educational and recreational resource.
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Adelaide’s creative industries are a broad ecosystem of sub-sectors linked by their ability to use design-thinking, or creativity, to develop and produce unique, innovative and highly sought-after int...
Adelaide’s creative industries are a broad ecosystem of sub-sectors linked by their ability to use design-thinking, or creativity, to develop and produce unique, innovative and highly sought-after intellectual property. They consist of 10 distinct but often intersecting sectors:
• Advertising and Communications Design
• Broadcasting: TV, Radio and Podcasts
• Design: Architectural, Industrial, Urban, Landscape, Interior and Product
• Fashion
• Festivals (Creative and Cultural)
• Music
• Performing Arts
• Screen: Film & TV, Post-Production, Game Development
• Visual Arts and Craft
• Writing and Publishing
The establishment of an Aboriginal Art and Cultures Gallery at Lot Fourteen presents a historic opportunity to showcase to the world the art and cultural assets of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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Adelaide is consistently ranked as one of the world’s most liveable cities, where visitors and locals alike can immerse themselves in a range of year-round festivals and events. The recent growth ...
Adelaide is consistently ranked as one of the world’s most liveable cities, where visitors and locals alike can immerse themselves in a range of year-round festivals and events.

The recent growth of the state’s defence sector combined with exciting developments in space, big data, machine learning, advanced manufacturing, and creative industries, means that Adelaide has the potential to become a leader in Australia’s innovation, cultural and tourism economies.
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Flinders University’s award-winning New Venture Institute is a leader in the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem in metropolitan Adelaide and in regional South Australia and has supported over 32...
Flinders University’s award-winning New Venture Institute is a leader in the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem in metropolitan Adelaide and in regional South Australia and has supported over 327 local start-ups to date.

For more than 40 years Flinders University has been a leader in the Creative Industries with a global reputation which has contributed to making Adelaide an international leader in the Arts.

The University of Adelaide’s Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Lot Fourteen’s first anchor tenant, is a global leader in machine learning and artificial intelligence. In addition, Lot Fourteen based industry will link with the University’s leading capability in cybersecurity, data analytics and entrepreneurship and will connect with students to develop new innovations through work integrated learning and internship opportunities.

The University of South Australia’s mission is focused on educating highly skilled professionals for the South Australian workforce and producing knowledge through applied research in Health, IT, Engineering and Future Industries, Education, Arts and Social Sciences and Business.
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The 800-bed Royal Adelaide Hospital is the state’s flagship hospital, providing a comprehensive range of the most complex clinical care to an estimated 85,000 inpatients and 400,000 outpatients each y...
The 800-bed Royal Adelaide Hospital is the state’s flagship hospital, providing a comprehensive range of the most complex clinical care to an estimated 85,000 inpatients and 400,000 outpatients each year.

The RAH is one of Australia’s most technologically advanced healthcare facilities, integrating the latest innovations across health, education and research to deliver high-quality care.

The state-of-the-art facilities appeal to healthcare professionals, helping to attract some of the best expertise from around the world.

The RAH is home to one of the biggest Automated Pharmacy Distribution Systems in the nation, bringing South Australia to the forefront of automated medication technology.

Telehealth facilities enable staff to consult with colleagues and patients in regional and remote areas across the state and further afield, while digital imaging technology will allow clinical images to be streamed live from operating theatres and procedural rooms for diagnostic and training purposes.

The hospital features the largest automated microbiology system in the southern hemisphere, providing world-class technology to support the timely diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases.
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Scientific research has found that the earth’s climate is rapidly changing. There has been increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising averag...
Scientific research has found that the earth’s climate is rapidly changing. There has been increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising average sea levels. We have been experiencing more extremes in temperature, drought and higher bushfire risk.

Adaptation will be necessary to address impacts resulting from the warming which cannot be avoided. There is no alternative but to undertake adaptation planning, and building the capacity and flexibility to cope with whatever evolving climate may bring.
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The magnificent new Ukaria Cultural Centre shows the benefits of embracing the arts in the region. The hexagonal, domed-roof timber auditorium with seating for more than 200 people was built by local ...
The magnificent new Ukaria Cultural Centre shows the benefits of embracing the arts in the region. The hexagonal, domed-roof timber auditorium with seating for more than 200 people was built by local businesswoman Ulrike Klein. It has hosted some of Australia’s finest musicians and singers and made Mount Barker an internationally recognised destination for fine music.
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Primary industries and tourism are the key industries in the region. The Adelaide Hills is a rugged area east of Adelaide in South Australia. Known for its cool-climate wines, it centres on the mou...
Primary industries and tourism are the key industries in the region.

The Adelaide Hills is a rugged area east of Adelaide in South Australia. Known for its cool-climate wines, it centres on the mountain and busy city of Mount Barker. Former German settlements include leafy Hahndorf, with its pubs and galleries, and Lobethal, famed for its handicrafts and Christmas lights.

The Fleurieu Peninsula is a broad peninsula south of Adelaide, South Australia. It is known for its wine regions including Langhorne Creek and McLaren Vale. Beaches along the rugged coastline include Normanville and Middleton.

Kangaroo Island lies off the coast of Fleurieu Peninsula, southwest of Adelaide, South Australia. Over a third of the island is protected in nature reserves, home to native wildlife like sea lions, koalas and diverse bird species.
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The Adelaide Hills is a rugged area east of Adelaide in South Australia. Known for its cool-climate wines, it centres on the mountain and busy city of Mount Barker. The Adelaide Hills grows an abun...
The Adelaide Hills is a rugged area east of Adelaide in South Australia. Known for its cool-climate wines, it centres on the mountain and busy city of Mount Barker.

The Adelaide Hills grows an abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables while artisan producers make everything from cheeses to jams, olive oil, ciders and authentic German breads and cakes.

Large-scale grain and pulse crops include wheat, durum, barley, oats, ryecorn, triticale, peas, lupins, broad beans, fava beans, chickpeas, lentils, vetch, canola and hay. Small areas of flax (linseed), safflower and coriander are also grown. South Australia's thriving small seed industry is the largest in Australia.

Bound by the Onkaparinga River to the west and the Bremer River to the east, the landscape ranges from the lush pastures of Meadows, through the bustling centre of Mount Barker to the gum-studded paddocks of Harrogate. In between, you’ll find orchards, market gardens, crops, livestock, vineyards and natural bushland reserves.

Kangaroo Island lies off the coast of Fleurieu Peninsula, southwest of Adelaide, South Australia.
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Is Australia’s housing crisis self-inflicted? If so, then we need a series of reforms to reverse it The best long-term solution to the structural problems of the rental crisis is to build more public...
Is Australia’s housing crisis self-inflicted? If so, then we need a series of reforms to reverse it
The best long-term solution to the structural problems of the rental crisis is to build more public and/or affordable housing.

Make renting more Sustainable. Increase rent assistance or look at rental caps, similar to countries in Europe and some US states, long term tenancy agreements with incentives for all parties to the agreement.

Build to Rent
The Build to Rent property sector is growing in Australia – this new class of housing is focused on providing high quality purpose designed and built rental stock, creating an additional housing choice for Australian renters with greater security and service.

Build to Rent developments are typically owned by institutional investors for the long term and the owner could be the developer/ongoing building manager. The format provides tenants with the flexibility of renting with the security of home ownership.

Build-to-Rent developments are usually large-scale residential properties specifically designed, built and managed for long-term ownership and rental.

Social Housing
In the 40 years between 1981 and 2021 the percentage of all Australian households living in social housing (i.e. state owned and managed public housing or community managed housing) has ranged from 4.9 per cent in 1981 to 3.8 per cent in 2021. Such a drop in the proportion of social housing raises the question of has Australia achieved the balance right, and also just what is the right level of social housing for Australia?

In 2018 Statistics Canada said 628,700 Canadian households, more than one in ten renter households nationally (13.5% of 4,652,500), were living in social and affordable housing.
In New Zealand, as of 30 June 2021, there were 74,337 public housing households. This equates to 4.0% of households living in social housing.

In England (in 2018) 17% of households (3.9 million) lived in social housing, while the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development publishes that 1.2 million households live in public housing, which is 0.98 per cent of all housing.
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