Our project team is currently interviewing community, government and industry stakeholders about the challenges of rental displacement

Because we’re talking with a wide range of stakeholders, the themes and questions that we ask will vary. For some organisations, we’re interested in learning about how your organisation or company supports private renters who are forced to move. For other organisations, we’re interested in learning about how the mobility of renters is affecting demand for infrastructure, jobs and services in different places.

Here’s a flavour of the kinds of the questions that we will be asking:

• What are the main challenges of private rental displacement?

• How does your organisation currently support households who have to move?

• What are the challenges involved in supporting households who have to move?

• What supports are working well?

• What supports need improving?

• What sort of information about rental displacement would you like to know from renters regarding how they could be better supported – information that we could potentially ask about in our future interviews with renters?

• Are there aspects of the rental displacement journey would you like to understand better/know more about?

The interview will last about 40 minutes and will take place online via Zoom. The interview style will be open-ended and conversational rather than a series of closed-questions.

Subject to your permission, we would appreciate recording the interview. If you would prefer not to be recorded, we will make brief notes of our conversation after the interview. The sound file will only be used for transcription.

• Participation is entirely voluntary, and you can decide to withdraw from the project at any time, and without reason. If you decide to withdraw, there will be no negative consequences, and your data will not be used.

• Unless you request to be identified, conversation will be de-identified. Unattributed quotes may be used in project outcomes. These include: conference papers; scholarly articles; summary reports for industry and government bodies; submissions to government and parliamentary inquiries and op-eds.

• Reference made to any off-record topics of conversation in the project outcomes will be generalised to ensure that you will not be personally identifiable.

• Even with de-identification, there is still a small risk that you might be identified by what you tell us. To manage those risks the following safeguards have been put in place: 1) If you mention something identifiable which cannot be de-identified or generalised, we will either seek further permission from you to use it or we will not use it at all. 2) You have the option to review, edit and veto the use of your transcript or parts of the transcript.

Only the researchers of the project team will have access to the transcripts, the sound recordings, and the notebooks which will be typed-up and safely stored in password-protected, encrypted files at the University of Melbourne and Monash University. Data collected may also be used in future projects that are closely related to this project or the same general area. If this occurs only the researchers on that project will have access to the data.  The data will be kept for five years. After this time, the data will be securely erased. A third-party is used to type up the interview, they will only have temporary access to the sound recording.