Professor of Housing Research, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Adelaide
Emma Baker is an ARC Future Fellow in the School of Architecture and Built Environment. Her research focuses on building evidence on the ways that housing and residential location influences health.
Aug 16, 2023 09:15 am UTC| Economy Real Estate
Roughly one in three Australians rent their homes. Its Australias fastest-growing tenure, but renting is increasingly unaffordable. From 2020 to 2022, our research found a large increase in the proportion of renters who...
Stimulus that retrofits housing can reduce energy bills and inequity too
Jun 04, 2020 12:19 pm UTC| Economy
Stay-at-home orders and the economic crisis have increased the burden of energy costs on lower-income Australians. Poor housing quality and unequal access to home energy efficiency are hurting our most vulnerable...
The many faces of social housing – home to 1 in 10 Australians
Mar 15, 2020 06:04 am UTC| Economy Real Estate
Social housing is part of the lives of a surprising number of Australians. On any one night in Australia, just over 4% of households rent social housing. Yet it has housed many more people than this for brief, and...
Jul 22, 2019 13:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Australias biggest city is abuzz with news of yet another housing development declared unsafe for human habitation. This time it is apartments built on a toxic dump the local council fears was not properly cleaned...
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