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How prepared is your council when it comes to planning for affordable housing? Before jumping into actions and targets, it helps to check whether everyone’s on the same page about the basics such as definitions, roles, data and who needs to be in the room. We've worked with our lead Housing Consultant Crystal McDonald to create an Affordable Housing Planning Checklist to help councils with: 👉 Gaining internal alignment on affordable housing 👉 Spotting gaps in data, policy and partnerships 👉 Clarifying your starting point before you start writing the plan It’s a quick way to get your house in order so your next strategy doesn’t stall on avoidable misunderstandings. If you're keen to lay strong foundations for your affordable housing strategy, grab the checklist here: https://bit.ly/4pbLGnp. #affordablehousing #socialhousing #communityhousing

How vulnerable is your area to primary school shortages? Informed Decisions forecaster Johnny Barnard helped The Age pull together this feature piece on the places where school shortages will hit hardest. Like North Melbourne, where there is limited land available to build, but people are becoming more accustomed to high-density apartment life. If your school is facing pressure to plan right now, we can supply the insights you need - just reach out, we'd love to chat. https://lnkd.in/g3uQ39B7

Two suburbs. Both in growing cities. In one, new classrooms can’t open fast enough. In the other, school enrolments are steadily falling. 📍 Mawson Lakes (SA): an established and ageing suburb that will have 250 fewer 0-17 year olds in ten years' time. 📍 North Melbourne (VIC): a renewing inner-city area where we forecast 600 more school-aged children will live by 2036 Local demographics and suburb lifecycles mean some areas will have fewer 0-17 year olds in ten years' time, even as Australia grows. Download our latest report for an expert, up-to-date look at how migration, fertility, housing development and other factors are shaping school demand across the country. 📘 Planning education provision in a changing Australia: https://lnkd.in/g7jtRfhS #schoolplanning #education #demographics #population #forecasting #migration #fertility #births #ardenprecinct #mawsonlakes

Thrilled to see our analysis featured in news.com.au and heaps of other media outlets over the past week - spotlighting our 2025 Living in Australia report which ranks the nation's most liveable areas and explores how Aussies truly feel about where they live. Do you know what really drives people's happiness with where they live? And where the happiest parts of Australia are? The full 2025 Living in Australia report highlights the areas where Australians’ values and lived experiences are drifting apart. Understanding these gaps helps councils, governments and businesses see where strategies need to shift to improve liveability, both nationally and in local communities. https://lnkd.in/gvHVM3Tf

📉 New analysis from our population forecasters is LIVE for several Queensland areas of interest, as well as Central Adelaide and the Adelaide Hills. All of these places are set to grow, but in fundamentally different ways - from densification and increased apartment living, to greenfield developments; from young families and immigration to new retirement communities. All will demand changing, growing services. 👉 Click for a taste of how change is coming, and get in touch with us for deep analysis and insights you can use today, to shape success tomorrow. These new releases are hot off the press: find links to each in the comments or find your region here: https://lnkd.in/g-VeaQs5 🍇 Central Adelaide and the Adelaide Hills 🌞 Brisbane North 🌞 Central Queensland 🌞 Ipswich 🌞 Inner City Brisbane 🌞 East Brisbane 🌞 Townsville 🌞 Toowoomba

🚸 Over the next 20 years, Australia’s education system will need to find space for an extra 720,000 children. One factor impacting this number is fertility rates (the average number of children born to each woman). The pandemic disrupted the downward trend in Australia's fertility rate, creating a COVID baby blip that is now rippling through the population. Over the next few years, we will see the impact as these children start arriving at the school gate. In this video, Ielyzaveta Ivanova from our population forecasting team explains how these shifts are playing out and why they matter for anyone planning schools and childcare. However, fertility is just one piece of the puzzle. In our new report, launching on Monday, we present the full picture of post-pandemic population trends, showing how they are reshaping demand for schools and childcare at the local level over the next 20 years. 📘 Pre-register for your copy: https://lnkd.in/gDz4UP2E #schools #childcare #planning #education #population #demographics