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Recent interim findings from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety have led to the Australian Government increasing the number of home care packages by 10,000. The home care packages aim to help older Australians ‘age in place’—in December 2018, 93,331 people were receiving a home care package to help with their day-to-day living, while (in March 2019) another 75,739 people were waiting for a home care package.

The housing aspirations and desires of young adults (aged 25–34) and older Australians who have retired (aged 65–74) are framed around quite different housing and employment experiences and long-term goals. Two recent ���������reports have  looked at the housing aspirations of younger and older Australians and found some similarity in housing preferences despite the large age gap between the groups.

To celebrate two decades of research, policy engagement, public events and research capacity building, ���������is very pleased to launch the ’20 Years of AHURI’ commemorative publication. As a unique partnership between the Commonwealth and state and territory governments and an Australia-wide network of university partners, ���������has delivered vital research and insights that have guided governments and shaped community thinking.

The importance of financial assistance for Australian households on low incomes who are renting in the private rental market is apparent when we consider that of the 1.31 million income units who received Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA) in 2018, 68 per cent would have been in housing affordability stress if they hadn’t received the subsidy.