Rent tech is an unavoidable part of modern renting – and renters have little control over what data they have to give up and what happens to it afterwards.
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Detroit had 20,370 eviction cases filed in 2025. But evictions that do not go through the formal court process are not included in the city’s official eviction data.
Energy is meant to improve people’s lives. Often cost prevents residents from making the most of that opportunity, so they cut back on energy use to be able to pay the bills.
The new Festival Lodging Rental License allows properties to be rented out for a maximum of 29 days per year.
Renters account for an increasingly larger share of the adult population. Research analysing more than 25 years of voting data shows what this means politically.
New Zealand needs more social housing and affordable rentals, but also better pathways for working renters to become home owners.
New technologies could make the switch to solar more affordable for renters and apartment dwellers.
There are some promising results for local residents from different states’ approaches.
In the end, this scheme did deliver on some of its key promises. But it is surprising governments haven’t taken note of its shortcomings and replaced it with something even more effective.
The first step is rethinking the way we view housing – as home and shelter rather than an investment or commodity.
Despite some pleasing announcements, the budget still leaves many Australian renters facing significant pressures.
The US and UK both face a housing crisis. But while US policy has stalled, the UK has just enacted major protections for renters.
For a quarter of its residents, Pittsburgh isn’t an affordable place to live. A contested housing policy is at the center of efforts to change that.
Priced out of ‘safe,’ more and more Americans are moving to flood plains and fire zones.
New research surveying more than 10,000 Australians has found people feel better about the nation than in years prior, but strong divides remain.
While these strategies work for some people, they are not necessarily possible for most aspiring first home owners.
Rising housing costs are driving young adults back home – and reshaping careers, relationships and the economy.
One described how the house was ‘excessively damp and mouldy, to the point where all of our furniture and clothes and stuff started to get mould on it.’
Whether or not people can retire comfortably increasingly depends on one thing: whether you’re a homeowner or a renter.
One Australian survey found more than a third of private renters feel their housing situation is harming their mental health.
Top contributors
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Research Fellow, Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Huddersfield
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Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Deputy Program Director, Housing and Economic Security, Grattan Institute
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
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Associate Professor & Global Challenge Lead, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University; University of British Columbia
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Adjunct lecturer, Victoria University
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Senior Associate, Economic Prosperity and Democracy, Grattan Institute
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Program Director, Housing and Economic Security, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor (Housing Policy), Adelaide University, and Research Associate, ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, University of Essex
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Research Professor, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Law, Discipline of Law, Justice and Society, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor, POLIS@ANU Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, Hill and Levene Schools of Business, University of Regina