AHURI Research Centre

Current UniSA AHURI  Projects

Published AHURI reports by UniSA researchers

The past year has seen successful publications by UniSA researchers through AHURI, as follows. All project reports are available for download from the AHURI website (www.ahuri.edu.au):

AHURI reports 2022

• Understanding what attracts new residents to smaller cities (Akshay Vij, Ali Ardeshiri, Tiebei Li, Andrew Beer and Laura Crommelin, published 24/03/22)
• Australia’s COVID-19 pandemic housing policy responses (Chris Leishman, Fatemeh Aminpour, Emma Baker, Andrew Beer, Adam Crowe, Zoë Goodall, Ella Horton, Keith Jacobs, Laurence Lester, Sofia Torchia, Duncan Maclennan, Chris Martin, Meredith Nash, Hal Pawson, Steven Rowley, Wendy Stone and Rachel Ong ViforJ, published 08/04/22)
• Understanding the lived experience and benefits of regional cities (Laura Crommelin, Todd Denham, Laurence Troy, Jason Harrison, Hulya Gilbert, Stefanie Dühr and Simon Pinnegar, published 05/05/22)
• Alternative housing models for precariously housed older Australians (Selina Tually, Veronica Coram, Debbie Faulkner, Helen Barrie, Andrea Sharam, Amity James, Braam Lowies, Kirsten Bevin, Eileen Webb, Helen Hodgson and Andreas Cebulla, published 26/05/22)
• Urban Indigenous homelessness: much more than housing (Deirdre Tedmanson, Selina Tually, Daphne Habibis, Kelly McKinley, Skye Akbar, Alwin Chong, Kate Deuter and Ian Goodwin-Smith, published 10/08/22)
• Understanding how policy settings affect developer decisions (Steven Rowley, Chris Leishman, Oluwole Olatunji, Jian Zuo and Adam Crowe, published 25/08/22)
• Growing Australia’s smaller cities to better manage population growth (Andrew Beer, Laura Crommelin, Akshay Vij, Jago Dodson, Stefanie Dühr and Simon Pinnegar, published 31/08/22)
• The economic dynamics and population change of Australia’s regional cities (Tiebei Li, Todd Denham, Jago Dodson and Akshay Vij, published 31/08/22)
• The impact of the pandemic on the Australian rental sector (Emma Baker, Lyrian Daniel, Andrew Beer, Steven Rowley, Wendy Stone, Rebecca Bentley, Rachel Caines and Gemma Sansom, published 20/10/22)

AHURI reports 2020/2021

• Redesign of a homelessness service system for young people (David MacKenzie, Tammy Hand, Carole Zufferey, Sean McNelis, Angela Spinney and Deirdre Tedmanson, published 16/04/20)
• Supporting families effectively through the homelessness services system (kylie valentine, Hazel Blunden, Carole Zufferey, Angela Spinney and Farnaz Zirakbash, published 18/06/20)
• ‘A pathway to where?’ Inquiry into understanding and reimagining social housing pathways (Kristy Muir, Abigail Powell, Kathleen Flanagan, Wendy Stone, Selina Tually, Debbie Faulkner, Chris Hartley and Hal Pawson, published 23/07/20)
• Warm, cool and energy-affordable housing policy solutions for low-income renters (Lyrian Daniel, Trivess Moore, Emma Baker, Andrew Beer, Nicola Willand, Ralph Horne and Cathryn Hamilton, published 23/09/20)
• Ending homelessness in Australia: A redesigned homelessness service system (Angela Spinney, Andrew Beer, David MacKenzie, Sean McNelis, Ariella Meltzer, Kristy Muir, Andrew Peters and kylie valentine, published 01/12/20)
• Housing and housing assistance pathways with companion animals: risks, costs, benefits and opportunities (Wendy Stone, Emma Power, Selina Tually, Amity James, Debbie Faulkner, Zoë Goodall and Caitlin Buckle, published 19/02/21)
• Local government co-ordination: metropolitan governance in twenty-first century Australia (Andrew Butt, Annette Kroen, Wendy Steele and Stefanie Dühr, published 17/03/21)
• Towards an Australian social housing best practice asset management framework (Andrea Sharam, Sean McNelis, Hyunbum Cho, Callum Logan, Terry Burke and Peter Rossini, published 14/10/21)
• Ageing well in public housing (Debbie Faulkner, Julia Verdouw, Peta Cook, Selina Tually, Edgar Liu, Bruce Judd, Helen Barrie and Veronica Coram, published 17/11/21)
• Inquiry into population, migration and agglomeration (Chris Leishman, Nicole Gurran, Amity James and Christian Nygaard, published 09/12/21)

AHURI COVID-19 reports

• Renting in the time of COVID-19: understanding the impacts (Emma Baker, Rebecca Bentley, Andrew Beer, Lyrian Daniel, published 15/10/20)
• The imbalance of power between tenants and landlords (in Baker, E., Daniels, L., eds. (2020), Rental Insights: A COVID-19 Collection, The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited, Melbourne) (Akshay Vij, published 4/12/20)

NHRP2021:

Sustainable housing at a neighbourhood scale

Led by Professor Stefanie Dühr, the project is part of a larger Inquiry into housing in a circular economy led by Professor Ralph Horne (RMIT). Other UniSA researchers involved in the ‘Sustainable housing at a neighbourhood scale’ project are Dr. Stephen Berry, and Dr. Jack Wilde.

A data-driven policy roadmap for the rental sector in post-pandemic Australia

Professor Andrew Beer is involved in this project led by Emma Baker (University of Adelaide).

Rethinking social housing stock matching and allocations: innovations in policy and practice

Dr. Selina Tually and Professor Ian Goodwin-Smith are involved in this project led by Iris Levin (Swinburne University of Technology).

Regulation of residential tendencies and impacts on investment in changing rental markets

Professor Eileen Webb is involved in this project led by Chris Martin (UNSW).

Crisis Accommodation in Australia: Now and for the Future

Dr. Selina Tually, Professor Ian Goodwin-Smith and Dr. Veronica Coram are involved in this project led by Deb Batterham (Swinburne University of Technology).

NHRP2020:

Inquiry into Growing Australia’s smaller cities to better manage population growth.

Led by Professor Andrew Beer (Business), the inquiry involves UniSA researchers Professor Stefanie Dühr (Creative) and William Veitch (Business). The inquiry project ‘Understanding the drivers and motivations of migration to smaller cities’ is led by Dr Akshay Vij (Business).

Inquiry into Housing policies and practices for precariously housed older Australians. 

Led by Dr Debbie Faulkner, the inquiry includes the projects ‘Housing models for precariously housed older Australians’, led by Dr Selina Tually (Business/TAASE) and ‘Mapping where older low-income renters live’ led by Dr Helen Barrie.

Urban Indigenous homelessness: much more than housing

Research statement: This project reviews policy, practice and service delivery in relation to Indigenous homelessness in urban settings. It explores culturally safe responses to homelessness from Indigenous perspectives and considers options for more holistic and better targeted, coordinated and operated support for Indigenous people experiencing homelessness in urban settings.

Research team: Associate Professor Deirdre Tedmanson, Associate Professor Alwin Chong, Dr Skye Akbar, Dr Selina Tually, Professor Ian Goodwin-Smith and Associate Professor David MacKenzie from UniSA, and Associate Professor Daphne Habibis from University of Tasmania.

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