Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute

The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) is a national research organisation specialising in housing and urban research and policy. AHURI operates research centres at a number of universities around Australia.

The AHURI RMIT-NATSEM Research Centre is based in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning in the Design and Social Context Portfolio, RMIT University (Melbourne).

The centre has a multidisciplinary focus and draws on skills from a range of economic, social, environmental and cultural disciplines. Areas of expertise lie in:

• Housing affordability
• Labour and housing
• Homelessness
• Women and housing
• Indigenous housing
• Sustainable housing and urban planning

The researchers have networks that include:

• Australian and international researchers based in universities, government agencies, NGOs, industry and the private sector
• Commonwealth, State and local governments
• Community organisations
• Private industry and business.

We host visiting researchers and have several research associates.

Researchers receive grants from a number of funding bodies and are widely published

The AHURI-RMIT/NATSEM Research Centre contact is:

Serena Lim
Coordinator, AHURI
RMIT University
GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001
Email: serena.lim@rmit.edu.au
Phone: (+61 3) 9925 2272
Fax: (+61 3) 9925 9888