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Australia’s rental crisis reaches new heights: 2024 Rental Affordability Index

Insights For Purpose Housing

The ability for local governments to fund infrastructure and services

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Community Benefit Sharing: A Path to Equitable Development

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Australia's spatial divide: The power of place in shaping quality of life

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Employment, Environment, Health, Housing

Where you live impacts your quality of life, access to opportunity, and wellbeing, according to the latest SGS Cities and Wellbeing Index.

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Scholarship supports graduate's passion for socio-spatial justice

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The SGS Economics and Planning Graham Larcombe scholarship was awarded to Rafi, a planning graduate set on impacting socio-spatial inequality.

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Live Q&A Event – Data-Driven Community Infrastructure Planning

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Arts and Culture, Community Infrastructure, Education, Employment, Environment, Health, Housing

Using data in community infrastructure planning leads to better decisions and improved community wellbeing. How can we effectively integrate data into our planning processes? Join our panel of municipal leaders, data experts, and social planners as we explore the powerful role that data can play in informing the planning, delivery, and management of community infrastructure.

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Live Q&A Event – Improving Community Wellbeing: A Practical Guide for Local Government

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Education, Employment, Environment, Health, Housing

When we look beyond GDP to understand the wellbeing of our communities, we reveal the true stories behind Australia’s cities and regions, a topic crucial for all local government officials and policymakers. Join us for a live Q&A event to launch the SGS Cities and Regions Wellbeing Index and hear about how the Index can inform local government decision-making.

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How Marija went from being homeless at 15 to a homeowner at 22

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The Give Me Shelter report, a cost-benefit analysis by SGS Economics and Planning for Housing All Australians, found that investing in helping young homeless people by providing accommodation and wraparound services would provide an economic benefit to Australia.

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Australia’s population evolution: Short-term gains and long-term thinking

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The end of March marked every demographer’s favourite day of the year – the annual ABS population dataset release for Australia’s capital cities and regions. We have already delved into the dataset, and one clear message has emerged: overseas migration is making a remarkable comeback.

SGS Economics and Planning acknowledge the First Nations Peoples of Australia and on whose Country we live and work. We acknowledge that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia never ceded their sovereignty, and are one of the oldest continuing living cultures on Earth, have one of the oldest continuing land tenure systems in the world, and have one of the oldest continuing land use planning and management systems in the world.

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