Journal article

An Australian rental housing conditions research infrastructure

E Baker, L Daniel, A Beer, R Bentley, S Rowley, M Baddeley, K London, W Stone, C Nygaard, K Hulse, A Lockwood

Scientific Data | NATURE PORTFOLIO | Published : 2022

Abstract

Each year the proportion of Australians who rent their home increases and, for the first time in generations, there are now as many renters as outright homeowners. Researchers and policy makers, however, know very little about housing conditions within Australia’s rental housing sector due to a lack of systematic, reliable data. In 2020, a collaboration of Australian universities commissioned a survey of tenant households to build a data infrastructure on the household and demographic characteristics, housing quality and conditions in the Australian rental sector. This data infrastructure was designed to be national (representative across all Australian States and Territories), and balanced ..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council


Funding Acknowledgements

The project was funded by the Australian Research Council (LE190100132) and The University of Adelaide, in partnership with the University of South Australia, the University of Melbourne, Swinburne University of Technology, Curtin University and Western Sydney University. The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute funded the COVID-19 module (20/PRO/31254).