Housing is at the center of global debates about the future of societies, economies, and the environment. There is stark recognition in many nations that housing conditions are at crisis point, marked by acute and chronic problems of access, adequacy, security, and affordability and entangled with wider distributional inequities. Housing systems struggle to provide social and affordable housing, prevent and respond to homelessness, ensure spatial and intergenerational equity, reduce racialised, gendered, class and other inequalities and achieve justice for Indigenous and insecure migrant communities.

Meanwhile housing production is driven by problems of material and financial cost, fiscal and regulatory complexity, institutional incoherence and resource exhaustion.  Firms and governments across Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific are struggling to shape and organise supply systems and markets to produce dwellings while also grappling with shifting populations, labour markets, industrial, financial, and urban and regional dynamics, among resource depletion and climate risk. More and better knowledge is urgently needed to overcome the questions posed by the faults and weaknesses in contemporary housing systems.  In this critical moment, the 2027 Australasian Housing Researchers Conference will convene a range of academic and scholarly perspectives and insights to report upon, deliberate on and advance, new knowledge of housing systems in Australia and New Zealand, and through collaboration with the Asia-Pacific Network for Housing Research, across the wider region. Research presentations are invited from across the relevant disciplines and research institutions of Australasia and the Asia-Pacific.