The National Housing Supply and Affordability Council used its State of the Housing System Report 2026 to propose an "all encompassing" metrics stack to monitor progress toward housing system objectives. We criticise that proposal for the same disclaimers under which it is published, for its selective approach to identifying which elements of the housing system are included in the "all encompassing" framework and for the measurement techniques that have been adopted. They are biased. We have built what has been proposed by the Council, so that it auto updates with the release of each public source used to generate the metrics. We are working on supplementing these metrics with additional metrics, case-studies and narrative content to demonstrate why decisions made in advance of diligence have lasting adverse effects across in the housing system.
We're just getting started.
We have added automated trackers for the metrics proposed by the Council. Additional metrics are prefixed with a +. Sources, methods and limitations are provided in each metric.
We plan to work with stakeholders across the system to supplement this framework with insights in the forms of statistics, case studies and narratives that can better inform policy makers as to the diligence we require before decisions are made and resources are deployed.