Complex Social Systems: Housing
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Presented on housing as a complex social system and how agent-based modelling (ABM) can be used to understand and inform housing policy. I framed housing as a complex system shaped by multiple interacting agents, heterogeneity and inequality, feedback loops, and emergent phenomena such as bubbles, segregation and affordability crises; discussed why computational models are valuable for making implicit assumptions explicit; shared findings from a literature survey of 27 agent-based housing models across 11 countries along with key gaps; and outlined ongoing work in the Australian context, modelling affordable and social housing supply for low-income renters through a participatory approach that engages stakeholders in shaping model assumptions and the policy levers worth simulating.
