Australia's housing organisations make billion-dollar decisions — HAFF submissions, development pipelines, board commitments — with data that's fragmented, delayed, and disconnected. These are the numbers that make the case for why that has to change.
Dwellings Built Per Year
202,257
84% of the 240,000 National Accord target
Annual Supply Shortfall
37,743
Dwellings per year below what Australia needs
Unmet Housing Requests
129,000
353 people turned away every single day
Housing Success Rate
29.1%
Only 1 in 4 people who needed housing actually received it
The same $1B that built 3,226 social homes in 2019 builds only 1,786 today — a 37% loss in construction purchasing power. 189,536 households are on public housing waitlists — a decade high (RoGS, June 2025). Net overseas migration hit a record 518,000 in 2023. Every year without coordinated action compounds the deficit.ABS Building Approvals (Cat. 8731.0) · AIHW SHS Annual Report 2023–24 · ABS PPI House Construction (Cat. 6427.0) · ABS Cat. 3412.0. Updated May 2026.
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Updated monthly · May 2026BELOW TARGET
Housing Accord
84%
of required pace
202,257 homes/yr · 37,743 shortfall
37,743 annual shortfall vs 240,000 target. At this rate, the 1.2M goal misses by 315,000+ homes.
Planning reform is the fastest zero-cost lever — states are blocking it.
IN PROGRESS
HAFF Delivery
47%
contracted
18,650 of 40,000 homes · R3 in assessment
Round 3 applications open Jan 2026 targeting the remaining 21,350. Full delivery by 2029 requires flawless Round 3 execution.
Contracting decisions in late 2026 determine whether the 40,000-home commitment is met.
ERODING CAPACITY
Construction Costs
−37%
purchasing power
$1B builds ~2,222 homes today vs ~3,521 in 2019
58.5% cost inflation since 2019. Programs announced at 2022 costs face structural funding gaps that compound every year without adjustment.
Grant rates in HAFF Round 3 must reflect current build costs — not 2022 assumptions.
Eight connected intelligence layers
Not a dashboard. Not a database. Eight modules that work independently — and together answer questions no single source can.
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Sourced, not scraped
681 primary publications — AHURI, AIHW, ABS, Treasury, Rawlinsons. Every claim traced to a specific report. Nothing synthesised from unverified sources.
02
Intelligence, not charts
Every data point comes with HIVE Analysis — opinionated, sector-specific interpretation that tells you what the numbers mean for your next decision, not just what they are.
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The full picture, one place
From housing need to asset risk in one platform. No more assembling a submission from six different tabs across three government websites.
Housing Data
Live SHS quarterly data, ABS building approvals, state waitlist registers, and sector benchmarks — updated monthly.
Housing Data →Housing Need
Who needs housing and why. Population projections, homelessness cohort profiles, household composition, rental stress by region.
Housing Need →Supply Pipeline
State-by-state supply intelligence — waitlist trends, building approvals, social housing completions, and the gap to demand.
Supply Pipeline →Development Viability
Per-dwelling funding waterfall — construction cost, HAFF grant, HA debt capacity, and residual equity gap. Any state or typology.
Development Viability →Funding & Programs
Every active funding program catalogued — HAFF rounds, HA lending, state grants, tax incentives, and CHP sector benchmarks.
Funding & Programs →Sustainability
Climate risk (152 suburbs), NatHERS energy ratings, LHD compliance, and ESG intelligence — all connected in one place.
Sustainability →Asset Intelligence
Compound risk scoring — Climate × Energy × LHD — per suburb. Identify extreme-risk assets and model remediation cost.
Asset Intelligence →Evidence & Policy
Ask any question, get a cited answer from 681 indexed reports. 20 years of policy history, program scorecards, source library.
Evidence & Policy →🌍 HIVE's most distinctive capability
The triple failure — and where it concentrates
A subset of suburbs — HIVE's highest compound-risk tier (top ~10% of the 152 profiled) — face climate exposure, energy-poor stock, and LHD non-compliance simultaneously. This is where Australia's most vulnerable tenants live — paying $2,200+ extra in energy costs, in homes that reach 43°C+ on extreme heat days, without the accessibility features to age in place. HIVE is the only platform that maps this intersection across all 152 profiled suburbs.
Where do you want to start?
Every section is live, sourced, and ready. Pick the area most relevant to the decision you're facing.
Understand who needs housing
Who needs housing, where they are, and why the private market structurally fails them. Cohort profiles, waitlists, and rental stress by region.
Housing Need →
Prove your development stacks up
Per-dwelling funding waterfall — TDC, HAFF grant, HA debt capacity, and residual gap. Model any state, typology, or HAFF scenario instantly.
Development Viability →
Know your sustainability exposure
Climate risk, NatHERS ratings, LHD compliance, and ESG benchmarks — connected across 152 suburbs and all 8 states. The only platform that shows the compound picture.
Sustainability →
Ask the evidence
681 indexed research reports — AHURI, AIHW, ABS, Treasury, Rawlinsons. Ask any question and get a cited answer. Every claim traced to a primary source.
Evidence & Policy →
Built for people who make housing decisions
HIVE is used across the sector — by the organisations building homes, funding them, advocating for them, and investing in them.
CEO / Executive Director
Walk into every board meeting knowing what the research says. Sector benchmarks, program performance, and housing need data — board-ready in seconds.
Development Manager
Build HAFF submissions that hold up to scrutiny. Model feasibility, benchmark construction costs by state, and track the pipeline against demand.
Policy & Advocacy Officer
Synthesise evidence across 681 reports for submissions, ministerial correspondence, and advocacy briefs. Cross-jurisdictional comparisons in seconds.
Impact Investor / Financier
Market sizing, sector capacity, supply gap quantification, viability modelling, ESG benchmarks, and climate risk — all the intelligence an investment decision needs.
Grounded in primary evidence
Every answer HIVE gives is traceable to a specific publication. Nothing is made up. Nothing is approximate.
AHURI
Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
The primary academic source — 15+ years of final reports and evidence reviews on every dimension of Australian housing.
AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Specialist Homelessness Services quarterly data, homelessness estimates, Indigenous housing, and housing assistance outcomes.
ABS
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Building approvals (Cat. 8731.0), Census housing data, income surveys, and population projections Series B to 2066.
Housing Australia
Housing Australia (formerly NHFIC)
HAFF program data, bond aggregation reports, lending guidelines, and annual State of the Nation's Housing reports.
Rawlinsons
Rawlinsons Australian Construction Handbook
Annual construction cost benchmarks by typology and state — the industry standard. 2019–2025 series underpins the HIVE cost index.
State HAs
All 8 State & Territory Housing Authorities
Social housing waitlist registers, public housing stock data, and annual reports — sourced directly from each jurisdiction.
SK
“The data the housing sector needs has always been publicly available — ABS releases, AIHW reports, budget papers, waitlist registers, construction benchmarks. What hasn't existed is a single place where it's connected, current, and immediately usable. HIVE is built on the principle that better decisions come from better access to evidence — not from having more time or a larger research team.”
Sunny Kim·Founder · Impact Analytics Australia
The housing crisis won't wait. Neither should your intelligence.
Every section is live, sourced, and built for the decision you're making today.