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The biennial National Housing Conference was abuzz once again on 10-12 October 2023, bringing together around 1300 leaders from across the Australian housing and homelessness sectors to examine and plot A Way Forward for housing in Australia. NHC 2023 was convened in Brisbane by ���������with the support of the Queensland Government and 25 generous sponsors.

Low remuneration, short term contracts and competitive funding models are resulting in experienced staff leaving the specialist homelessness services industry, new ���������research warns.

First home owner grants and long periods of low interest rates have actually made it more difficult for aspiring first home buyers, finds new ���������research. However, there are smart policy options governments can adopt that would support more aspiring first home buyers to achieve home ownership. 

On Tuesday, 12 September, ���������was delighted to host a morning tea to honour the late Judy Yates’s memory with the establishment of the Judy Yates collection to be housed in AHURI’s library. We were delighted to welcome Judy’s widower, Warren Yates, and son, Mark, along with ���������friends and alumni.

Each year more than 160,000 people experiencing or at risk of homelessness seek crisis accommodation from SHS. Not all can be accommodated, and many are turned away. For those who do access crisis accommodation, experiences vary significantly. New research, ‘Crisis accommodation in Australia: now and for the future’, undertaken for ���������by researchers from Swinburne University, Launch Housing, University of South Australia and  Flinders University, explores the different crisis accommodation models operating in Australia to find out what works and what doesn’t. It highlights a range of gaps in the availability and quality of crisis accommodation that people receive, as well as the urgent need to improve exit options to longer term accommodation. It also steps out what’s needed to fix crisis accommodation.