By Claire Daniel, Scientia PhD Scholar, UNSW. In 2019 we conducted a survey of practicing Australian planners to collect their perspectives on technology use in the profession and anticipated change. The results have now been published in a peer-reviewed article in Australian Planner co-authored with Professor Chris Pettit. I would like to share the highlights with you […]
Digital disruption in planning – survey results of planners’ perspectives
May 12th, 2021 · No Comments · Guest appearance, Planning
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New research project: regulation of residential tenancies and impacts on investment
May 4th, 2021 · No Comments · Private rental
Residential tenancies laws across Australia are on a broadly common ‘consumer protection’ model, but with many differences in the details, including coverage of marginal tenures, notice periods, termination grounds and processes. States’ and territories’ reform processes have mostly been unco-ordinated, and significant divergences and gaps have opened up in the law, particularly for interstate landlords. […]
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States housed 40,000 people for the COVID emergency. Now rough sleeper numbers are back on the up
February 11th, 2021 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Hal Pawson and Chris Martin. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Read the full report, ‘COVID-19: rental housing and homelessness impacts – an initial analysis‘. Australian governments acted to protect homeless people from COVID-19 in 2020 on an even larger scale than previously thought. […]
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Dealing with apartment defects: a how-to guide for strata owners and buyers
December 14th, 2020 · No Comments · Housing, Housing conditions, Strata, Uncategorized
By Sian Thompson, UNSW; Bill Randolph, UNSW; Hazel Easthope, UNSW; Laura Crommelin, UNSW, and Martin Loosemore, University of Technology Sydney. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. If you own an apartment – or are thinking of buying one – the recent news about building quality […]
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$1 billion per year (or less) could halve rental housing stress
November 2nd, 2020 · No Comments · Affordability, Government, Guest appearance, Housing, Private rental
By Rachel Ong ViforJ, Curtin University; Chris Martin, UNSW; Hal Pawson, UNSW, and Ranjodh B. Singh, Curtin University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. COVID has shown us what’s possible when it comes to alleviating poverty. For six months JobSeeker payments were doubled and then […]
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Inquiry into integrated housing support for vulnerable families
October 13th, 2020 · No Comments · Government, Guest appearance, Housing, Indigenous, Social housing
By kylie valentine, Kyllie Cripps, Kathleen Flanagan, Daphne Habibis, Chris Martin and Hazel Blunden. This is an edited extract from the executive summary of the AHURI Inquiry Report. Read the executive summary, the full report and the policy evidence summary here. Domestic and family violence (DFV), mental illness and problematic alcohol and other drug use […]
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A brief history of Australian residential tenancies law reform: from the nineteenth century to COVID-19
September 4th, 2020 · No Comments · Housing, Law, Pandemic, Private rental, Tenancy
By Chris Martin. Originally published in Parity, the journal of the Council to Homeless Persons. Australia is currently going through a period of unusual activity in residential tenancies law reform. New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT have recently concluded reviews and amended their legislation, and Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory are currently […]
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COVID-19 renter survey – invitation to participate
August 19th, 2020 · No Comments · Housing, Pandemic, Tenancy
Renting in Australia during the COVID-19 emergency? You’re invited to participate in a survey about COVID-19 rental negotiations, conducted by the City Futures Research Centre at UNSW Sydney. The survey is open to persons who Were living in a rented dwelling in Australia on 29 March 2020 (when the eviction moratorium was announced) Are aged […]
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A dog’s breakfast? Why rental pet reform is needed
August 5th, 2020 · No Comments · Government, Guest appearance, Housing, Private rental, Strata, Tenancy
By Ebony Stansfield, UNSW Newsroom. Originally published by UNSW Newsroom. NSW pet tenancy laws do not reflect the needs of society, with strata by-laws impacting the vulnerable, say UNSW experts. As COVID-19 restricted them to working from home, Alexandra Foster and her partner decided it would be perfect to foster an animal. This is when […]
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Australia can, and must, build the post-pandemic recovery with more social housing
May 22nd, 2020 · No Comments · Affordability, Affordable housing, Government, Guest appearance, Housing, Housing supply, Pandemic, Social housing, urban renewal
By Bill Randolph, City Futures Research Centre, and Wendy Hayhurst, Community Housing Industry Association. Originally published on John Menadue’s Pearls and Irritations. The Australian Treasurer has acknowledged that boosting infrastructure spend would be a good way to kickstart our country’s recovery from the current pandemic. What follows is a reasoned case for that infrastructure spend […]
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