Australia has a comprehensive national database on property-level flood risk. But it is currently proprietary, meaning the public can’t access this valuable information.
- Senior Lecturer, School of Design and the Built Environment, Curtin University
Researchers examined how disaster risk informs decisions about new housing. They found crucial problems that leave communities exposed.
An ageing population is caught in a perfect storm of rising house prices and rents, falling home ownership rates, mortgage debt carried into retirement, insecure rentals and a lack of social housing.
Problems in finding suitable housing will make it even more difficult for migrants to integrate successfully in Australian society.
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