{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE260101438"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"DE260101438","attributes":{"code":"DE260101438","administering-organisation":"Macquarie University","announcement-administering-organisation":"Macquarie University","scheme-name":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2026,"years-funded":3,"project-start-date":"2026-01-01","anticipated-end-date":"2028-12-31","grant-summary":"Housing in Crisis: Examining the Processes and Politics of Policy Change. In response to the current housing crisis, this project aims to investigate how and why Australian housing policy has changed in the past five years. By conceptualising the housing crisis as the subject of ‘framing contests’ between different policy actors, and through a phased project design involving mixed methods, it will show who has influenced policy change and how. Expected outcomes include new knowledge about how crises can reshape policy and how the politics of housing is changing in contemporary Australian society, shared through diverse project outputs and engagement with policy makers and advocates. Expected benefits include more responsive and accountable housing policy and more effective advocacy for housing policy reform.","funding-current":529945.00,"funding-at-announcement":525752,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Alistair","familyName":"Sisson","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0002-3101-6932 "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Alistair","familyName":"Sisson","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0002-3101-6932 "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"Macquarie University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"NSW"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"Macquarie University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"NSW"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":true,"code":"4406","name":"Human Geography","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"440612","name":"Urban Geography","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"440707","name":"Housing Policy","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"230109","name":"Homelessness and Housing Services","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"230204","name":"Public Services Policy Advice and Analysis","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"280123","name":"Expanding Knowledge In Human Society","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":["England"],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"Australia is in the midst of a housing crisis. Housing affordability has declined severely since the COVID-19 pandemic, becoming one of the most significant domestic political issues of the 2020s. In the words of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the housing crisis is “a challenge facing Australians everywhere and it needs action from every level of government”. With the need for significant and urgent policy changes increasingly clear, this project will investigate how housing policy has changed in response to the housing crisis, and why. It will produce new knowledge about the ways that a crisis can reshape policy aims and processes, including the influence of different stakeholders and interest groups. Outputs will include a novel online public database of new State, Territory and Commonwealth government housing policies since 2020, detailed reviews of four key areas of policy change, and a series of scholarly and general audience publications. These outputs, and wider public and practitioner engagement, will directly inform future housing policy, encourage greater scrutiny of and accountability for housing policy decisions, and inform the work of organisations advocating for housing policy reforms."}}}