Citizen Science Rental Housing Gallery

This photo gallery provides a platform to document examples of Australian housing conditions to better understand the material conditions of housing properties and the extent and characteristics of building problems.

We know very little about the conditions of Australian housing properties. The Housing Conditions Gallery contains images submitted by anonymous individuals of the conditions of housing properties across Australia. These images provide researchers, policy makers, and the public with a better understanding of the conditions of housing properties, and the extent and characteristics of building problems.

We hope that the gallery will encourage debate and discussion, as well as give publicity to housing conditions in Australia.

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At some point in the past, this place had a pretty dodgy bay window extension and it leaked consistently. The windowsill was rotten in a few spots but apparently in this spot the conditions were perfect for a little mushroom to pop up. We got 3-4 mushrooms over the 2 years we were there.

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Features I noted of a few 1Bdr apartments that I inspected to rent in Melbourne, that still cost half of my income as a DSP recipient.

The project is funded by the Australian Research Council and the University of Adelaide, in partnership with the University of South Australia, the University of Melbourne, Swinburne University of Technology, Curtin University and Torrens University Australia and is led by Professor Emma Baker at the University of Adelaide.