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Most older Australians aren’t in aged care. Policy blind spots mean they live in communities that aren’t age-friendly

October 31st, 2022 · No Comments · Wellbeing

By Edgar Liu, UNSW Sydney; Bruce Judd, UNSW Sydney, and Mariana T Atkins, The University of Western Australia. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In response to the horror stories of abuse and neglect from the Royal Commission into Aged Care, the new federal Labor […]

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Living with diversity in high-density apartment settings

June 28th, 2019 · No Comments · Cities, Housing, International, Migration, Private rental, Strata, Wellbeing

by Edgar Liu, Hazel Easthope and Christina Ho (UTS). This article is republished from the Meridian180 forum summary page. Read the original article—and Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean versions—here. Read our original lead post and discussion questions here.   Recent migration surges and rapid urbanisation have increased human diversity in population-dense locations, particularly in urban […]

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Neighbours’ fears about affordable housing are worse than any impacts

December 5th, 2016 · No Comments · Affordability, Housing, Housing supply

This article, co-written with Dr Gethin Davison, was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article here.   Housing affordability is a hot topic in Australia. Governments are increasingly recognising that more needs to be done to provide a greater range of affordable housing options, especially in the major cities. It is well documented, […]

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Why adult children stay at home: looking beyond the myths of kidults, kippers and gestaters

November 28th, 2016 · No Comments · Cities, Demographics, Housing, Migration

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article (co-written with with Dr Hazel Easthope) here.   We’ve all seen it in the movies: overgrown “kidults” living at home while their parents pick up their dirty laundry, cook their meals and vacuum around their unmade bed. This narrow portrayal of what modern-day multigenerational households […]

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Sense of place: messier than it ever was, so how do we manage this shifting world?

September 30th, 2016 · No Comments · Cities, Public space, urban renewal

by Edgar Liu and Robert Freestone. Originally published at The Conversation.   Place is a crucial dimension of human meaning and relationships. It grounds us. Our attachments with multiple places are a significant part of our individual and group identities. At one level, these attachments reflect our values and aspirations, while at another level they […]

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It’s not easy being green, especially when affordable help is so hard to find

July 19th, 2016 · No Comments · Climate change, Wellbeing

This article by Edgar Liu and Bruce Judd was originally published on The Conversation.   The transition to a clean energy future is upon us, as shown by the huge uptake of solar panels and by the Turnbull government’s decision to set up a A$1 billion Clean Energy Innovation Fund. But what about those people […]

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It’s not all SINKS, DINKS and nuclear families

November 3rd, 2015 · No Comments · Cities, Housing supply, Wellbeing

By Edgar Liu & Hazel Easthope Reading the news headlines in Australia in the last handful of years, one could be forgiven for thinking that the only housing issue the general public is interested in is its price, particularly if and how first-time buyers can afford to enter the housing market, or when the housing […]

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Don’t fear boarding houses: they’re probably not what you think

October 26th, 2015 · No Comments · Housing, Housing supply

By Edgar Liu and Ryan van den Nouwelant. Originally published at The Conversation.   A recent application for an eight-room boarding house in the leafy north Sydney suburb of Cromer attracted over 800 objections from residents and the school community. Proponents of the project, including governments, may be tempted to dismiss these residents as NIMBYs […]

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