ABS and RBA Joint Conference – 2025 Opening Doors: Data and Analytics Shedding Light on Housing Challenges
Sydney,
Much has been written about housing challenges in Australia. This conference aims to use data (both traditional and new) to explore the issues behind this declining affordability and the implications for policy development and setting.
Papers
Session 1: Supply (organised jointly with the Productivity Commission)
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Housing Construction Productivity: Can We Fix It?
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Building the Homes We Need: How to Unlock Housing Choice in Australia’s Cities (paper not available)
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Housing Supply and the Commonwealth (paper not available)
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From Address to Dwellings: Building a Register of Dwellings for Australia
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Size Matters: Why Construction Productivity Is So Weak
Session 2: Demand
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Monetary Policy and Housing Markets: Insights Using a Novel Measure of Housing Supply Elasticity
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The Australian Rental Market: New Insights from Micro Data (paper not available)
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Overview and Early Analysis of the New Wealth and Housing Asset Module (WHAM)
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Do Housing Investors Pass-through Changes in Their Interest Costs to Rents?
Session 3: Distribution
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Measuring the Changing Size of Intergenerational Transfers in the Australian Tax and Transfer System
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Housing in Australia: Financial Journeys through Affordability, Retirement and Climate Challenges
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Renting in Retirement: Why Rent Assistance Needs to Rise
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Super for Housing
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A Tale of Two Pensioners – A Closer Look at the Wealth of Age Pensioners (paper not available)