Young Australians, Fintech and Housing Futures
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Young Australians, Fintech and Housing Futures
Please join the Australian Centre for Housing Research on Thursday 15 October for a talk with Professor Roger Burrows.
Young Australians increasingly manage their financial lives through apps — borrowing, saving, investing, spending and even gambling from their phones. But what sits behind these platforms, and what might their growing influence mean for future access to housing?
Professor Roger Burrows follows the money and data behind some of the major apps young Australians use every day — from CommBank and Afterpay to CoinSpot and Polymarket. He explores who owns them, where the money goes, what these platforms learn about their users, and how these emerging digital financial lives may ultimately shape access to credit, renting and homeownership.
Drawing on new research with young Australians, this talk reveals the increasingly blurred boundaries between fintech, financial inequality and the housing futures of a generation.
This Speaker Series talk will be of particular interest to housing researchers, policymakers and anyone concerned with the future of Australia's housing.
Speaker
Professor Roger Burrows
Roger Burrows is Professor in Global Inequalities at the University of Bristol, Honorary Professor in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University and Adjunct Professor in the Australian Centre for Housing Research at Adelaide University. He is also Emeritus Professor of Cities at Newcastle University. An interdisciplinary social scientist, his work spans housing and urban studies, socio-spatial inequalities and the cultural politics of digital life. His current research examines how algorithmic systems classify people and sort their access to housing and credit, the financialisation of everyday life through young people's use of fintech, and the movement of neoreactionary ideas out of Silicon Valley into debates about AI.
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