Where you live — renting, buying, building, downsizing, homelessness, energy bills, repairs, neighbours.

Why it matters: Housing eats more of household income than at any time in 30 years and pulls every other life area sideways. Citizen Voice 2025 ranks housing as the second-most-negative-sentiment area after cost of living, and it's the area where promises and visible delivery are furthest apart.

What it looks like across cohorts

Highest-leverage ideas in this area

• Modular crisis-housing factory (medium) — government-funded modular factory delivering ~5,000 prefab units/yr earmarked for crisis, key-worker and community housing partners. (idea i002)
• Universal renter portal (small) — federal-state portal merging bond, condition, repair, tribunal records into one tenant-owned record. (i001)
• Remote housing factory + workforce (medium) — co-designed remote build using NACCHO/community-controlled construction firms. (i020)
• Veteran Housing First (medium) — wraparound housing-first model in 10 cities for at-risk and homeless veterans. (i046)
• SDA market-maker (medium) — government-led demand aggregation in undersupplied regions with guaranteed yield. (i057)
• Youth foyers expansion (medium) — 5,000 youth-foyer beds across capital cities. (i070)
• Family-housing supply target (medium) — federal supply-target on 3+ bedroom dwellings in growth corridors. (i083)

Sources

• Citizen Voice 2025 — Housing section
• Anglicare Rental Affordability Snapshot
• National Housing Supply and Affordability Council
• Productivity Commission, Report on Government Services (Housing)
• ACOSS, AHURI