By Hal Pawson, UNSW and Cameron Parsell, The University of Queensland. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Exactly a decade ago in 2008, the Australian government committed to an ambitious strategy to halve national homelessness by 2020. Through stepped-up early intervention, better homelessness services and an expanded supply of affordable housing, […]
Entries Tagged as 'Affordability'
Homelessness: Australia’s shameful story of policy complacency and failure continues
May 15th, 2018 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Data, Government, Guest appearance, Housing, Sydney
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Zoning: impost, or necessary urban management?
May 14th, 2018 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Data, Economy, Housing
By Greg Paine, City Futures Research Centre. City Futures Research Centre and the Henry Halloran Trust recently hosted a seminar to review a Reserve Bank Australia discussion paper on zoning and house prices (see the video, and the CityBlog summary). It was well-attended (the issue strikes a chord), and conducted in the best traditions of […]
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Can the cost of zoning in Sydney really be $489k per house?
May 4th, 2018 · No Comments · Affordability, Economy, Housing, Housing supply
By Laura Crommelin and Hal Pawson, City Futures Research Centre. Can landuse planning restrictions be fairly blamed for Sydney’s unaffordable housing? Around 200 people attended a spirited yet erudite debate on this subject jointly staged by Sydney University’s Halloran Trust and UNSW City Futures last week. At issue was the striking claim made in a […]
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Grappling with housing disruption: how should planners respond to Airbnb?
May 1st, 2018 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Data, Economy, Government, Housing, Sydney
By Laura Crommelin. This article originally appeared in New Planner – the journal of the New South Wales planning profession – published by the Planning Institute of Australia. The explosive growth of digital short-term letting platform Airbnb poses plenty of challenges for planners, with the impact being felt across both urban and regional areas. But what exactly is the […]
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Housing: New Reapolitik Needs a New Real Economics
March 22nd, 2018 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Economy, Government, Housing, Productivity
By Duncan Maclennan, Laura Crommelin, Ryan van den Nouwelant, Hal Pawson. Originally published on John Menadue’s Pearls and Irritations. Managing the pressured housing markets of cities such as Sydney and Melbourne poses a major challenge to governments at both state and Federal levels. As has become increasingly clear, such trajectories are wreaking serious damage for younger […]
Affordable housing policy failure still being fuelled by flawed analysis
March 15th, 2018 · No Comments · Affordability, Construction, Government, Guest appearance, Housing, Housing supply
By Nicole Gurran, University of Sydney; Bill Randolph, UNSW; Peter Phibbs, University of Sydney; Rachel Ong, Curtin University, and Steven Rowley, Curtin University. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Australia has a housing affordability problem. There’s no doubt about that. Unfortunately, one of the reasons the problem has become so […]
Facts sink glib housing supply mantra – the focus must be on affordable rental
November 21st, 2017 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Finance, Government, Housing, Housing supply, Sydney, urban renewal
By Hal Pawson, UNSW. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. As everyone supposedly knows, fixing housing unaffordability is simply a matter of boosting housing supply. But wait! With their just-published report on house-building and population growth, ANU academics Ben Phillips and Cukkoo Joseph have blown yet another hole in that […]
Room sharing is the new flat sharing
October 13th, 2017 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Guest appearance, Housing, Housing conditions, Marginal rental, Public space, Sydney, Wellbeing
“Looking for one girl to share a master room with another 3 girls.” Screenshot from Gumtree ad, August 19 2017, 11:58 , Author provided. By Christian Tietz, UNSW. Originally published on The Conversation. Christian’s exhibition of new work – DENSA: Exploring New Urban Equipment for Denser Living – will be on display throughout the Red Centre […]
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Mounting housing stress underscores need for expert council to guide wayward policymaking
September 27th, 2017 · No Comments · Affordability, Construction, Data, Demographics, Government, Housing, Housing supply
By Hal Pawson, UNSW and Oliver Frankel, University of Technology Sydney. Originally published on The Conversation. A recent policy pledge by Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen has given fresh heart to campaigners for the restoration of the former National Housing Supply Council (NHSC). The Abbott government axed the council in 2013. With housing stress intensifying across […]
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Why investor-driven urban density is inevitably linked to disadvantage
August 23rd, 2017 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Construction, Housing, Housing conditions, Housing supply, Sydney, urban renewal
By Bill Randolph, UNSW This article is the third in a series based on new research into the place of lower-income and disadvantaged households in a compact city. Originally published on The Conversation. The densification of Australian cities has been heralded as a boon for housing choice and diversity. The up-beat promotion of “the swing […]
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