Low-income households are critical to our workforce, but increasingly struggle to find affordable rental housing near employment centres of Australia’s major urban areas, finds new research from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute.

Urban productivity and affordable rental housing supply in Australian cities and regions examined relationships between urban productivity and affordable rental housing, focusing particularly on the location and availability of affordable rental housing relative to employment and labour markets in Australia’s capital cities and satellite cities.

AHURI identified three primary policy development options to address challenges in the supply of affordable rental housing:

• Increase affordable housing near key employment areas
• Improve accessibility and connectivity to outer suburban and satellite city housing markets via strategic investment in transport and communications infrastructure
• Concentrated decentralisation: fostering new employment clusters through strategic place-based funding interventions and digital innovation.

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