Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute

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Overview

The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute commenced at QUT in 1993. The AHURI Queensland Research Centre was established in 2000 as a joint venture between QUT and the UQ to participate in the 'new' Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI). The Centre has close links with other research centres and schools within QUT and UQ and has a group of 'affiliated researchers' in each university who collaborate on research activities.The Centre also has close working relations with the Queensland Department of Housing and with the Queensland housing policy community, who are represented on the Centre's Advisory Panel.

Mission

AHURI's mission is to improve housing and related urban outcomes throughout Australia by the creation and dissemination of knowledge in housing markets, housing policy and programs, and the urban environment in cities, towns and regions.

Institute expertise

The institute's main topics of research are housing policies for:

• indigneous Australians
• housing policies for older Australians
• the management of social housing
• housing markets and urban development
• sustainable communities
• housing and social policy

The institute aims to conduct research that is valued by all sections of the housing policy community, including the public, private and community sectors.

Current QUT Projects

International Practice in Planning for Affordable Housing: Lessons for Australia

A collaborative project with the University of Sydney. The Chief Investigators from QUT are Dr. Douglas Baker, Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering, and Prof Sharon Christensen from Faculty of Law. The aim of the project is to enhance the role of urban planning systems in protecting and promoting affordable housing supply.

Flexible Housing Design for Indigenous Communities

A collaborative project with RMIT and the University of South Australia, Dr. Douglas Baker, Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering is the Chief Investigator from QUT. The project is a response to the need for a culturally appropriate and locally adjustable framework of design guidelines and capacity building tools for Indigenous housing in provincial and remote Australia.

Risk-assessment Practices in the Private Rental Sector: implications for low-income renters

A joint QUT/UQ project. Ms. Connie Susilawati an early career researcher from the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering is the QUT CI on this project. The project will investigate the influence and interplay of factors in risk-assessment and tenancy allocation practices of real estate agents in the private rental sector.

An Investigation of the Capacity of Communal Land Tenure to support the Housing Aspirations of Indigenous Community Members

A joing QUT/UQ project. The Chief Investigators from QUT are Mr. Lester Thompson from the School of Humanities, and early career researchers Ms. Andrea Blake and Mr. Paul Donehue from the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering. The aims of the project are to identify, classify and describe Indigenous systems of community land use and to compare them with contemporary non-indigenous land ;holding systems and approaches to housing provision such as cooperative housing, multiple occupancy, trusts and company structures.

Further information

The AHURI Queensland Research Centre is a collaboration of researchers at QUT and the University of Queensland , and is part of the overall AHURI network .

• Director of the Queensland Centre A/Prof. Douglas Baker
• Deputy Director of the Centre is A/Prof Andrew Jones located at UQ

General Enquiries

Research Theme and Centre Coordinator

Keryn Gray

Telephone + 61 7 3138 2793

Fax + 61 7 3138 1827

email: keryn.gray@qut.edu.au