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Governments across Australia are now making significant–and in some cases unprecedented–investments in social housing. Nevertheless, beyond a general acknowledgement of the importance of safe and affordable housing, there is little long term vision for the role of social housing at a national or state level.

Responses to Australia’s crisis of housing affordability have focused strongly on supply as the key solution. Growing Australia’s housing stock is undoubtedly necessary given high rates of population growth and household formation, but a lot more seems to be expected from it.

As the landscape of housing in Australia evolves, renting is becoming an increasingly prevalent tenure. Recent AHURI research revealed that three out of five Australian renters say they expect they will never own their own home.

The National Housing Conference 2025 (NHC25) is once again set to bring together Australia’s housing sector and policy makers at all levels of government, for discussions that will shape the future of housing in Australia.