NEWS
10/02/2025
IMPORTANT: Extended Abstract Submission Deadline for APNHR 2025
We would like to inform all prospective participants that the abstract submission deadline for the Asia-Pacific Network for Housing Research (APNHR) 2025 Conference has been extended to February 28, 2025. For details, please visit the APNHR 2025 page.
07/12/2024
APNHR Launches Call for Papers: 2025 Conference in Beijing
Towards Resilience and Inclusivity: Adapting to Multifaceted Challenges in the Asia-Pacific Region
05/12/2024
Call for Paper -- Special Issue of International Journal of Housing Policy:
Inclusive housing policy in Asia-Pacific: new challenges and opportunities
23/10/2024
The Australasian Housing Researchers Conference (AHRC) 2025 to convene at The University of Sydney:
“Housing at a crossroad: wealth, inequality and housing futures”
17/10/2024
We are pleased to announce that our new online registration and payment system has been updated. Please visit the Registration page for more details.
OUR AIMS
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To promote and enhance housing research in the Asia-Pacific, particularly comparative studies and theory/model construction.
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To strengthen networking among housing researchers, policymakers and practitioners in the region.
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To enhance the exchange and dissemination of research findings and publications.
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To facilitate housing education and training in the region.

OUR MISSION
Urban housing systems in the Asia-Pacific region span across a wide spectrum ranging from laissez faire through hybrid to government-led systems. Some systems may evolve with the macro socio-economic policies while some may not. Similarly, housing conditions do not necessarily reflect the levels of economic and social development of respective countries/cities. The diversity of the housing policy and practice in the Asia-Pacific countries and cities is yet to be adequately compared and explained.
Significant changes in the housing sectors of the Asia-Pacific have indeed taken place in the last three decades. Since the mid-eighties, the global trends of privatization and marketization have been affecting the housing policies of the region’s market and formerly centrally planned economies, and those in between. In the past one and half decades, the regional and global economic crises engendered significant policy changes in housing. The crises unfolded the interconnectedness of the housing sector with the general economy, the role of housing was thus under close review and subsequently redefined in the economic restructuring processes. The region is now entering into a booming stage. At this juncture, it is essential that APNHR continues to provide a forum for housing academics, policy makers and the like who have a strong interest in housing in the region to critically examine and review housing issues and experiences in the respective and comparative socio-political and economic contexts, and to draw lessons from outside the region. We hope that you will join us as members and attend our conferences to facilitate the exchange of ideas and experiences for the benefit of the people living in this region.

CONFERENCES
Our Network conference will be organized at regular intervals by the member countries. The Network may also jointly organize or sponsor local and international housing conferences.
Joint APNHR-AHRC Conference 2024
Re-imagining a better housing future
Febrary 2024, Adelaide, Australia
APNHR Conference 2022
July 2022, Shanghai, China
APNHR 20th Anniversary Online Symposium 2021
Housing Challenge & Innovations in Ageing Communities
June 2021, Online
APNHR Conference 2020
Housing Culture, Environment and Urban Development
Augest 2020, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
