Housing policies affect well-being through a wide range of channels including access to decent shelter, environmental quality, efficient use of scarce resources, type and extent of commuting, as well a sits contribution to strong and resilient economic growth. This snapshot provides across-country perspective on Australia’s housing-related indicators and policy settings. Households’ tenure choices depend on demographics and or socio-economic factors, as well as policies related to public promotion of housing, housing taxation and rental regulations. There are large differences  in tenure structure across OEC key partner countries home ownership in Australia is close to OECD average.