Report by Emma Baker, Rebecca Bentley, Andrew Beer and Lyrian Daniel. Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute.
October 15, 2020.
This research surveyed and analysed the circumstances for Australian renters during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdowns in July and August 2020 to identify challenges for the rental sector and to give insights into how the rental market is performing, the uptake of existing support measures and the demand for future assistance.We have not yet seen the full effect of COVID-19 and the subsequent economic crisis, but this early analysis of the COVID19 module of the Australian Rental Housing Conditions Dataset (ARHCD) suggests that the rental sector will be where many of the upcoming challenges for Australia overlap.
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