Atlas Housing Download Series: Parts 1-6

Welcome to the Atlas Housing Download – a six-part series exploring Australia’s housing market. Across this series, we have explored some of the fundamental causes of the Australian housing market crisis. We’ve examined the structural imbalance between population growth and dwelling production. The limited capacity of Australia’s construction sector, the growing building rulebook, rental market volatility and the declining supply of subsidised housing. We have compiled all six parts into one PDF for you to download and read. We hope you enjoy reading our six part Atlas Housing Download Series.

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Part 1: Population Growth + Dwelling Production

Examines the relationship between population growth and dwelling production, and why the gap between the two has become structural rather than cyclical.

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Part 2: Capacity and Capability of the Construction Sector in Australia

We shift the focus to the construction sector itself, specifically its capacity and capability to deliver housing at scale. The key question is whether the sector can translate demand into supply, both efficiently and at scale. We examine capacity and capability, and how these factors shape the sector’s ability to respond to rising demand.

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Part 3: Regulatory Change in Building Requirements and Cost Implications

We consider a topic that doesn’t often get the same coverage that factors like planning, land availability or feasibility do in the housing conversation: the steady expansion of the rulebook that governs how we design and build homes.

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Part 4: Volatility of Rental Supply and Impacts on Rents

We delve into one of clearest indicators of the health of our housing market – the rental market. We explore how the rental market has fundamentally changed in recent years, why it has changed and what potential implications the Australian Government’s changes to negative gearing and the capital gains tax (CGT) may have on the rental market.

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Part 5: Beyond Welfare: The Case for Subsidised Housing

In Part 4, we explored how Australia’s rental market has become increasingly constrained. Rental supply has become more volatile, affordability has declined and more households are competing for a shrinking pool of affordable rental homes. That raises the next question: what happens when households can no longer access suitable housing through the private market?

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Part 6: From Housing Approvals to Housing Delivery: What Can We Do?

Across this series, we have explored some of the fundamental causes of the Australian housing market crisis. We’ve examined the structural imbalance between population growth and dwelling production, the limited capacity of Australia’s construction sector, the growing building rulebook, rental market volatility and the declining supply of subsidised housing. We now arrive at the most important question: What do we do?

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Download all six parts of the Atlas Housing Download Series to read about some of the fundamental causes of the Australian housing market crisis.