News: COVID-19

Half of surveyed renters suffered mental health decline during COVID-19

social housing apartments
Posted on Dec 4 2020 by Crispin Savage

Australian renters have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 facing income loss, the inability to pay rent, tenure insecurity and eviction risk and a new AHURI publication provides a stark analysis of the impacts of these unprecedented challenges.

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New modelling simulates 2021 unemployment rate and incidence of Housing Affordability Stress

Stressed woman during COVID
Posted on Nov 26 2020 by Robyn Mills

New economic modelling on the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic shows that once COVID-19 government support interventions end, total unemployment in 2021 could peak at 1.752 million under the most severe of three scenarios modelled.

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