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RENTAL INSIGHTS:
A COVID-19 COLLECTION
Contents
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Foreword
HOUSEHOLDS UNDER STRAIN
TENANT SATISFACTION
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Towards a national discussion
on housing
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Poor quality, unaffordable
housing: a dangerous trap
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About the Australian Rental
Housing Conditions Dataset
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Perceptions of PRS affordability
in Melbourne and Sydney
DETERIORATING RENTAL
AFFORDABILITY
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Many renters have struggled
to make ends meet during
COVID-19
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Low-income renters pushed
further into rental stress
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Retrenched renters vulnerable
to long-term inequality
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Housing conditions and
security for renters during
lockdown: worse for
households with children
Tenants with a disability
at risk during COVID-19
Low-income older renters are
lonely and struggling financially
ISOLATION AND MENTAL HEALTH
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own their own home
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Are aspiring home owners in
a pandemic being realistic?
HOUSING POLICY
Renters experienced loneliness
working from home during the
pandemic
43 Doing fast housing policy in
UNHEALTHY HOUSING
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The imbalance of power between
tenants and landlords
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Loss of rental affordability linked
to raids on super
29 Children and young people
The private rental market—a
COVID-19 inequality accelerator
39 Most renters would prefer to
who has been most affected?
COPING WITH LOW INCOME
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ASPIRING HOME OWNERS
1/4 Australian renters live in
housing that makes them sick
a pandemic
45 New knowledge and a new housing
agenda for a ‘new normal’
are growing up in poor quality
rental homes
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Children’s health threatened
by cold rental homes
33 Renovating substandard
rental housing
ISBN
978-1-922498-16-8
DOI
10.18408/ahuri3125402
Recommended citation
Baker, E. and Daniel, L. (Eds.) (2020). Rental Insights: A COVID-19 Collection, The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited,
Melbourne, https://www.ahuri.edu.au/research/research-papers/rental-insights-a-covid-19-collection, doi: 10.18408/ahuri3125402.
Acknowledgment
We acknowledge the support and funding of the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the Australian Housing and Urban Research
Institute (AHURI), which enabled the construction of this national dataset.
