By Bill Randolph, Director, City Futures Research Centre. Originally published in New Planner. The recent inclusion of Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) in the draft District Pans for Metropolitan Sydney marks a turning point in the debates – and hopefully the policies – on the possibility of accessing some of the value generated by property development to […]
Entries Tagged as 'Affordability'
Value sharing for affordable housing
March 7th, 2017 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Government, Housing supply, Sydney
The 10-point Plan to Tackle the Housing Crisis Rides Again
February 21st, 2017 · 1 Comment · Affordability, Cities, Government, Housing, Housing supply
By Hal Pawson, Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre. With anxieties about Australia’s increasingly unaffordable housing close to fever pitch, increasingly zany policy ideas are being touted to fix the problem. Not long ago we heard the Urban Task Force advocating for a plan fundamentally undermining NSW planning system integrity. Last week the ABC’s Michael […]
New housing ministers – new housing policies?
January 30th, 2017 · No Comments · Affordability, Government, Housing
Congratulations to Anthony Roberts, the Minister for Housing, and Pru Goward, the Minister for Social Housing, on their appointments to NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s new Cabinet. Congratulations too to Matt Kean, Minister for Fair Trading, whose housing-related portfolio includes residential tenancies. This is the first time New South Wales has had two housing ministers. From […]
If you’re serious about affordable Sydney housing, Premier, here’s a must-do list
January 24th, 2017 · 1 Comment · Affordability, Cities, Finance, Government, Housing supply
By Hal Pawson, UNSW Australia. Originally published on The Conversation. So “fixing housing affordability” in Sydney is one of three top priorities for the new premier of New South Wales, Gladys Berejiklian. It’s good that the state’s new leader recognises this as an intensifying problem that can’t be ignored. Berejiklian will appreciate the electoral importance of […]
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, […]
Sydney needs higher affordable housing targets
November 24th, 2016 · No Comments · Affordability, Housing, urban renewal
Laurence Troy, UNSW Australia; Dallas Rogers, Western Sydney University; Emma Power, Western Sydney University; Hal Pawson, UNSW Australia; Kurt Iveson, University of Sydney; Louise Crabtree, Western Sydney University; Michael Darcy, Western Sydney University, and Peter Phibbs, University of Sydney The release this week by the Greater Sydney Commission of city-wide draft plans mandating some measure […]
Tags:Planning
All aboard for the Bankstown corridor – or just the lucky few?
September 21st, 2016 · 1 Comment · Affordability, Cities, Construction, Demographics, Government, Housing supply, Public space, Transport, urban renewal
By Professor Bill Randolph, Director, City Futures Research Centre. This is an extended version of an article published by The Conversation. It would be easy to assume that the new Sydney Metro Rail project will create something of an urban paradise along the new Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor through which it will run. […]
Open letter to the NSW Premier and Planning Minister
September 6th, 2016 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Guest appearance, Housing, Housing supply
By Wendy Hayhurst (CEO, NSW Federation of Housing Associations), Katherine McKernan (CEO, Homelessness NSW), Professor Peter Phibbs (Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney), Professor Bill Randolph (Director, City Futures, UNSW) and Dr Tim Williams (CEO, Committee for Sydney) Dear Mr Baird and Mr Stokes At the recent 2016 Affordable Housing Conference there was consensus from the […]
Apartment construction boom: is this the end of the dream?
July 22nd, 2016 · 1 Comment · Affordability, Cities, Construction, Housing supply
By Laurence Troy Australian Construction Insights (ACI) released their latest brief last Monday 18 July and noted that for the first time in Australia, construction starts for multi-unit housing were higher than for detached housing. Of course, there ought to be caution in reading these figures, as any decent geographer will tell you, location and […]
Tags:Tax
Housing’s back
July 12th, 2016 · No Comments · Affordability, Government, Housing
One week on and the election has produced a government – which, for a while there, didn’t look like a sure thing. However, the more remarkable result of the election campaign was this: one of the major parties campaigned on reforming tax settings to reduce house price speculation and, having grasped what was long supposed to […]
Tags:Tax