As a strata citizen, you’ll know the UNSW City Futures Research Centre from it’s extensive research, surveys, publications and other work around strata title issues, including their Strata Data reports where they collect, publish and analyse information about the number and make up of Australian strata buildings.
Now, the UNSW City Futures Research Centre has been awarded a $1 million grant by the office of the NSW Chief Scientist to lead the development of the Housing Analytics Lab.
The Housing Analytics Lab will be a hybrid physical/digital facility created to support data-driven housing solutions.
The Lab will lead a consortium of industry, academic, government and not-for-profits as a hybrid physical/digital facility located in Tech Central, South Eveleigh to support data-driven housing solutions.
The two-year grant is part of the Commonwealth Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) Support Program and in partnership with the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) NCRIS Facility and include the following existing digital tools:
A database with a map dashboard of all historic and live planning approvals across NSW and Australia.
An AI classifier of planning assessments to understand spatial clusters of current and future housing development activity.
A virtual Housing Assistant powered by generative AI and trained on existing housing literature to answer questions such as ‘What are the policy options for delivering affordable housing in different contexts?’
It’s well deserved recognition for UNSW and the City Futures Research Centre. And, it will be another useful tool and resource for strata stakeholders of all kinds as a key part of the Australian housing sector.
You can find out more about UNSW City Futures Research Centre and the Housing Analytics Lab here.