Urban Housing Lab responds to proposed Housing SEPP

Members of the Urban Housing Lab, Professor Nicole Gurran, and Drs Caitlin Buckle, Catherine Gilbert, Pranita Shrestha and Zahra Nasreen have responded to the NSW Government proposed Housing SEPP, up for submissions until the 29th August 2021. This submission builds on a previous submission for the renamed Diverse Housing SEPP. You can read the full …

Upcoming Event: COVID-19 in India and Nepal

The event aims to create awareness and feature local, grassroot level responses to COVID-19 in order to open avenues to share ideas, engage, provide technical expertise, support or resources especially for students and professionals in India and Nepal and those abroad who are separated from loved ones at home through lockdowns and border closures. This …

Urban Housing Lab 2020 Highlights

See the highlights of 2020 from the Urban Housing Lab. Despite the challenges of remote teaching; home schooling; social isolation; and separation from overseas and interstate family, Urban Housing Lab researchers continued to produce important work and contribute to wider policy development and public debate – Housing Lab Co-Founder Professor Nicole Gurran

Call for Papers – Sessions run by Co-Lab members at the Joint IAG/NZGS Conference

Urban Co-Labs members Dr Sophia Maalsen, Dr Dallas Rogers and Dr Caitlin Buckle are running sessions for the Institute of Australian Geographers and New Zealand Geographical Society combined Conference to be held at the University of Sydney from 6–9 July, 2021. Sessions titles and details are below: Disrupting Housing: digitalization and innovations in housing Sophia …

Two AHURI COVID-19 Projects Underway

Congratulations to Urban Housing Lab members Caitlin Buckle, Professor Nicole Gurran, Dr Catherine Gilbert and Henry Halloran Trust Director Professor Peter Phibbs, who are involved with two new AHURI COVID-19 research projects. Caitlin Buckle leads the project ‘Marginal housing during COVID-19‘ with Nicole Gurran and Peter Phibbs and in collaboration with Associate Professor Tess Lea …

Short term rentals and the housing market – critical housing research

Attention researchers! Contributions to a special issue of Critical Housing Analysis on Short term rentals and the housing market are currently invited, by guest editors Nicole Gurran (University of Sydney) and Declan Redmond (University College Dublin). Critical Housing Analysis publishes short papers that undergo quick double blind peer review by two members of the editorial …