Hal Pawson and Chris Martin writing for the UK’s leading housing industry magazine, Inside Housing In what feels like the dying days of an exhausted government, Michael Gove’s Social Housing (Regulation) and Renters (Reform) Bills look like last gasp attempts to breathe life into a housing reform agenda barely on life-support. True, many of the […]
Leasing your way to owning: how do rent-to-buy schemes measure up against the alternatives?
May 31st, 2023 · No Comments · Housing
By Hal Pawson If you’re an Australian born after 1995 it’s increasingly unlikely you’ll be buying your first home anytime soon. The 2021 Census confirmed what had been suspected: the number of people aged between 30 and 34 who owned their own house, had slipped to just 50%. That’s a drop of 14 percent in […]
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Housing in Federal Budget 2023: small but positive steps
May 12th, 2023 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Hal Pawson A housing policy bonanza it most certainly was not, but related announcements in Budget 2023 included some modestly positive steps that supplement the Albanese Government’s existing array of housing initiatives. These included pledged new spending to ease cost of living pressures for hard-pressed renters, and to fund dwelling energy efficiency upgrades in […]
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High stakes debate on Albanese government’s social and affordable housing plans
April 25th, 2023 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Hal Pawson The Albanese Government’s flagship housing legislation has stalled in the Senate, with the PM alarmingly flagging a risk that the package might be abandoned until the next election. To understand what’s going on here we need to wind the clock back to the ALP’s platform taken to the 2022 election. Let’s remember […]
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The post-COVID crisis hit Queensland hardest. With 100,000 households needing low-cost housing, here’s how it can recover
April 6th, 2023 · No Comments · Housing
By Hal Pawson. A version of this story was first published in The Conversation. Read the original article here. While the COVID emergency has waned over the past year, pandemic-generated pressures have left our rental housing market reeling. Australia-wide, vacancy rates remain close to rock bottom levels, while rental prices have been soared at record […]
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Commonwealth housing legislation 2023: CFRC Senate Inquiry testimony
March 16th, 2023 · No Comments · Uncategorized
On 15 March Prof Hal Pawson appeared at the Senate Economics Committee Inquiry on the Albanese Government’s package of housing legislation, entered into Parliament in February 2023. Reproduced below is his opening statement to the hearing. This draws on the Centre’s submission to the Australian Government on the draft bills as published in December 2022. […]
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Albanese government tackles housing crisis on 3 fronts, but there’s still more to do
February 9th, 2023 · No Comments · Housing
By Hal Pawson First published in The Conversation – read the original story here The Albanese government’s housing package moved a step closer to delivery with the recent release of draft legislation and bills tabled in parliament. After a decade of general federal disengagement from housing policy (first home ownership being the main exception), this […]
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Homeless numbers have jumped since COVID housing efforts ended – and the problem is spreading beyond the big cities
December 5th, 2022 · No Comments · Housing
By Hal Pawson (CFRC) and Cameron Parsell (University of Queensland). This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Homeless numbers have risen sharply across Australia, with soaring housing costs emerging as the biggest driver of the increase. The Australian Homelessness Monitor 2022, released today, reports that the […]
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1 million homes target makes headlines, but can’t mask modest ambition of budget’s housing plans
October 27th, 2022 · No Comments · Government, Housing
By Hal Pawson, UNSW Sydney. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Housing took centre stage in Treasurer Jim Chalmers’s first budget this week. Relatively modest but positive steps were made towards tackling Australia’s worsening shortage of affordable social housing, as well as the broader challenge […]
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The market has failed to give Australians affordable housing, so don’t expect it to solve the crisis
October 14th, 2022 · No Comments · Government, Guest appearance, Housing
By Hal Pawson, UNSW Sydney; Bill Randolph, UNSW Sydney; Chris Leishman, University of South Australia; Nicole Gurran, University of Sydney; Peter Mares, Monash University; Peter Phibbs, University of Sydney, and Vivienne Milligan, UNSW Sydney. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The federal Labor government has […]
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