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2 September 2026

Are investors turning away from Australian property?

​Professor Chris Leishman explains that home loans for owner-occupiers are growing faster than property investor loans for the first time since 2004.

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August 2026
 

South Australia's cooling real estate market is continuing to dip with startling new figures showing buyers are pumping the brakes 

Mr Peter Koulizos shares insight about South Australia's cooling property market with 7News Adelaide.  

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12 November 2024 
 

Why more Australians are renting forever

​Some Australian renters say they're willing to pay more in rent, to secure longer-term leases. Professor Emma Baker discusses new findings from an AHURI report that shows that many Australians believe they'll be renters for life. 

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19 March 2024 
 

45.3 degrees inside: the renters who tracked temps over summer

Passing out, calling 000 and sleeping in the backyard: a temperature-tracking study has found heaps of renters spent the summer in conditions the WHO reckons are not only uncomfortable, but also potentially dangerous. Professor Emma Baker chats with ABC's Hack. 
 

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1 September 2026
 

What does housing instability mean for children's wellbeing? 

​Associate Professor Amy Clair explains recent findings from an Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) project, which has been considering the ways housing affects children's health and development. 

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19 April 2025

Housing and healthy ageing

​Associate Professor Amy Clair discusses her epigenetic research into the impact of living in poor quality rented housing, with Professor Meena Kumari and Professor Emma Baker. They find that private renting can age you faster than being unemployed or smoking.

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19 June 2024
 

Why are Australian homes so cold and can we warm them up in an affordable way? 

Professor Emma Baker chats with ABC Radio National (Life Matters) about Australia's cold housing problem. For many Australians, warming up cold homes only further increases steep energy bills. 

 

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15 December 2020 


Social Housing

​According to a report housing stress will increase by 20% in 2021. Is there an urgent need for investment in the social housing sector? Could social housing be a way of helping more Australians get into a long term home? Professor Emma Baker and Michael Lennon discuss the issue on ABC podcast Nightlife. 

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31 August 2026

Families renting because ‘home ownership was inaccessible’

New study finds that kids, by age 14, had moved an average of six times and that housing impacts developmental transitions.

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27 August 2026

More children are growing up in rental housing and moving every couple of years

A new report by researchers at Adelaide University shows children who grow up in rental housing move every 2.3 years, on average.

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29 July 2026

Charlotte moved in with her landlord. She couldn't believe what happened next

With more of us share housing, navigating living with strangers is an increasingly important — and sometimes challenging — skill.

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14 July 2026

Why many young Australians face a more winding pathway to home ownership

Australians are renting for longer, relying more heavily on the “bank of mum and dad”, or never entering homeownership at all.

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14 March 2026

Average earners can't afford Adelaide homes as rate rises loom

New data highlights the shocking growing number of South Australians living on a knife’s edge as interest rates look set to rise on the back of overseas conflict and a local cost of living crisis.

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15 October 2025

The government wants more of us living in high rises. Here's why Australians don't want to

Australia was once a nation where the great Australian dream was owning a home with ample space for a lawn and a garden.

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1 September 2022

Look where Australia's '1 million empty homes' are and why they're vacant - they're not a simple solution to housing need

The recent release of 2021 Census data revealed a shocking "one million homes were unoccupied".

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31 August 2026

Could super help build homes? Adelaide Uni on One Nation claims

Pauline Hanson wants superannuation rules loosened, a Labor minister awards it “gold medal for stupidest policy”. Adelaide University researchers examine the details.

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17 August 2026

Recycling fee put forward as solution to Australia's growing solar panel waste

One of Australia's leading science organisations says an additional installation fee of about $10 for each panel could help solve Australia's rooftop solar waste problem.

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16 June 2026

Small, unloved and unkempt, these unusual properties are hot in Australia

In a country where the housing market is squeezed, decommissioned electrical substations are in demand as refurbished residences.

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21 May 2026

Banned homes return to Adelaide to smash housing crisis

A certain type of home that hasn’t been built in Adelaide for decades is coming back – and a leading housing expert says it’s about time.

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25 February 2026

More than 45,000 Indigenous households lack adequate housing. Here's what must change

Finding and affording adequate housing is a challenge many Australians face, but few more so than First Nations people.

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2 August 2025

Adelaide City Council plans for 50,000 CBD residents without 'destroying the city'

Adelaide City Council wants to almost double the population of the CBD and North Adelaide by 2036.

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23 November 2021

Peter Costello says RBA 'irresponsible' on rates, but who is responsible for housing affordability?

Former Treasurer Peter Costello has labelled the Reserve Bank of Australia "irresponsible" for stating it would keep interest rates where they are until 2024.

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27 August 2026

'Six homes by age 14': Aussie kids hit by new blow in housing crisis

A generation of Australian children faces a childhood defined by upheaval, with new data showing kids move house six times before high school as family home ownership crumbles.

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14 August 2026

Is Australia's housing market crashing or correcting? Experts explain the difference

When does a slowing in home price growth – or even a price fall – turn into a housing market crash?

Certainly not now, say the experts. And it’s unlikely to be in the next few years, either.

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14 May 2026

Despite some wins, this budget won't transform regional Australia

Since at least the early 1990s, much of regional Australia has felt overlooked by the rest of the country.

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2 May 2026

How Britain's housing crisis contributes to its declining healthy life expectancy

Where and how people live is one of the main factors explaining how health risks are created and distributed across society.

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19 January 2026

Why SA’s ‘slow-growth’ population can be a strength

Slightly slower population growth gives SA breathing room, writes Adelaide University professors Emma Baker and Andrew Beer. It gives us something other cities lack: the chance to plan properly.

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1 May 2025

Experts reject claim Labor 'created' housing crisis

Australia's housing crisis has again become a key election talking point, particularly for the coalition, which is blaming the Albanese government for the problem.

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