By Chris Martin. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Image credit: Shutterstock. There’s a new bill before federal parliament calling for housing to be considered a fundamental human right. The bill, introduced last week by independent federal parliamentarians Kylea Tink and David Pocock, would require […]
A new bill is proposing a human right to housing. How would this work?
July 8th, 2024 · No Comments · Government, Housing
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First home ownership assistance schemes: how does Australia compare with other countries?
April 19th, 2024 · No Comments · Government, Housing
By Chris Martin and Hal Pawson. This is an edited version of the abstract of our new article, Australian first home ownership assistance schemes: International comparison and assessment, published in Australian Economic Papers. Australia, like most developed countries, has promoted homeownership as an express housing policy goal for many decades. Domestically and internationally, recent years […]
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What is biophilic design? 3 ways ‘green’ buildings work better for neurodivergent people
April 10th, 2024 · No Comments · Cities, Wellbeing
By Fatemeh Aminpour, UNSW Sydney; Ilan Katz, UNSW Sydney, and Jennifer Skattebol, Western Sydney University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. One in seven people worldwide are neurodivergent. They may have a diagnosis of a neurodevelopmental condition such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or autism […]
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Embedding Indigenous advice in government policy key to real change
September 8th, 2023 · No Comments · Government, Housing, Indigenous
By Hon Prof Vivienne Milligan, City Futures Research Centre. Originally published at Pearls and Irritations, John Menadure’s Public Policy Journal. In discussions of the upcoming referendum on establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, a question often raised is how will it make a difference? This has been difficult for advocates to address because instances […]
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Australian residential tenancies law reform: a new agenda for 2023 and beyond
August 1st, 2023 · No Comments · Tenancy
By Chris Martin. Originally published in ‘Reforming Residential Tenancies Acts’, a special issue of Parity magazine, by the Council to Homeless Persons. On 28 April 2023, Australian governments, meeting as the National Cabinet, agreed to develop a new law reform agenda to ‘strengthen renters’ rights across the country’. Housing ministers are now tasked with drafting […]
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Vertical schools are increasingly common. This is what students want in ‘high’ school design
June 22nd, 2023 · No Comments · Cities
By Fatemeh Aminpour, UNSW Sydney. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The traditional idea of a one-or-two-storey school, spread over a vast campus is no longer an option for some new schools. Population growth and a lack of land in urban areas mean some schools […]
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To deliver enough affordable housing and end homelessness, what must a national strategy do?
June 20th, 2023 · No Comments · Government, Housing
By Chris Martin. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The Albanese government came to office promising action on housing. Its A$10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund is now stuck in the Senate, with the Greens demanding more ambitious funding and reforms. The government is also […]
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A sustainable Australia depends on what happens in our cities – that’s why we need a national urban policy
June 5th, 2023 · No Comments · Cities
By Robert Freestone, UNSW Sydney; Bill Randolph, UNSW Sydney, and Wendy Steele, RMIT University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Australia has not had a national urban policy since the Rudd government. A troika of Liberal PMs followed. Tony Abbott wasn’t interested. Malcolm Turnbull didn’t […]
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The housing and homelessness crisis in NSW explained in 9 charts
March 20th, 2023 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Hal Pawson, UNSW Sydney. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Whatever the result of the New South Wales election on March 25, rising housing stress is a problem the new state government will have to confront. Soaring rents and an extraordinary lack of rental […]
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Planning, regulation, the local state and the housing crisis in England
February 8th, 2023 · No Comments · Guest appearance, Housing
By Assoc Prof Ben Clifford, University College London. This post comes out of Assoc Prof Clifford’s September 2022 presentation in the City Futures Seminar Series. In England, as in Australia, the housing crisis, and its links to planning reform debates, has remained high on the political agenda for many years. Recent months have seen tensions […]
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