UQ hosts key academic housing conference

Housing affordability, housing pathways (home ownership, private renting, public housing), and the future of housing research will be discussed at a Brisbane conference next week.

The Housing Policy Research Program within UQ’s Social Research Centre is hosting the second Australasian Housing Researchers’ Conference.

It will be at Brisbane Customs House from Wednesday, June 20 to Friday, June 22.

Conference co-convenor Dr Tim Seelig said the conference theme was Reshaping Australasian housing research.

The event, which is sponsored by the Queensland Department of Housing, had attracted more than 100 senior housing researchers, post-doctoral and early career housing researchers, PhD scholars, and other research affiliates.

Presenter abstracts (online) cover topics including: the effect of rent increases on the housing stress situation; greening residential housing; homelessness and substance use; giving a voice to low income renters; reshaping Indigenous housing; emotional attachment to home and security for permanent residents in caravan parks in Melbourne; housing pathways of income support recipients; and measures of housing affordability.

The conference website includes information on other conference themes, and plenary and workshop sessions.
Media: Further information, Dr Tim Seelig, Research Fellow, UQ Social and Research Centre Housing Policy Research Program, telephone 07 3365 1251, mobile 0409 474 003, email: t.seelig@uq.edu.au or Jan King at UQ Communications 07 3365 1120.