A suitable mechanism for strengthening the private investment in affordable rental housing. The Australian affordable housing sector and specifies implementation requirements for a preferred option. It offers feasible recommendations for a government-facilitated private investment mechanism for affordable rental housing to operate across all states of Australia to combine the strengths and capacity of Australia’s growing superannuation and rapidly professionalizing non-profit housing sector. They are focusing on the role played by Australia’s financial services industry, superannuation, debt securities and banking sectors, and affordable rental sector.

The outlines of the reported rationale preferred design and implementation requirements for a mechanism to catalyze institutional investment in affordable rental housing. It also shows how governments can help to establish a robust market for such activity. The  Australian governments are critically engaged in housing policy reform. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) provides an important vehicle to achieve it and the National Affordability Housing Agreement (NAHA), COAG aspires to ensure that all Australians have access to affordable, safe, and sustainable housing that may, in turn, contribute to their improved social and economic participation.