Executive summary This report presents the outcomes of a research project conducted by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) RMIT Research Centre on the way a significant proportion of new suburban detached housing is built in Australia. The report examines the ‘volume building’ housing industry that supplies detached housing, the dominant form of...

This research project investigated the marginal rental housing market, which includes boarding or rooming houses and residential (caravan) park accommodation and provided a typology of marginal rental housing.

This study finds that the availability of labour for housing construction is not a contributor to poor housing affordability in Victoria or Queensland. Description This study utilises a mixed methods approach, including a literature review, exploratory interviews with industry stakeholders, quantitative analysis of spatial and temporal aspects of the industry, and focus groups with experienced...

The increasingly inadequate supply of housing throughout Australia, especially in capital cities, is a housing policy issue of national significance. It has ramifications for such issues as housing affordability and the present under-supply of social housing. Although there are various reasons for this under-supply of housing, this research project will address questions relating to construction...

This project aims to better understand the housing sector labour market and will answer the question: What are the principle constraints faced by the housing sector labour force in meeting the challenge of increasing housing supply? The research will assist in establishing greater certainty in policy aimed at ensuring adequate housing supply, good economic management...