An Australian housing conditions data infrastructure

For the past two decades, researchers and policy makers have known very little about conditions within Australia's housing stock due to a lack of systematic and reliable data. In 2022, a collaboration of Australian universities and researchers commissioned a large survey of 22,550 private rental, social rental and homeowner households to build a data infrastructure on the household and demographic characteristics, housing quality and conditions in the Australian housing stock. This is the third and largest instalment in a national series of housing conditions data infrastructures.

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For the past two decades, researchers and policy makers in Australia had limited knowledge about the conditions within the country's housing stock due to a lack of systematic and reliable data. In 2022, a collaboration of Australian universities and researchers conducted a large survey of 22,550 households in different housing arrangements to establish a data infrastructure on household and demographic characteristics, housing quality, and conditions in the Australian housing stock. This survey represents the third and largest installment in a national series of housing conditions data infrastructures.